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A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
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A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.
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A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell -
All fear is bad, and ought to be overcome not by fairy tales, but by courage and rational reflection.
On Fear -
All human activity is prompted by desire.
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russells best: silhouettes in satire -
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
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