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"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
-- David Russell
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
-- Bertrand Russell
"Some would sooner die than think. In fact, they often do."
-- B. Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
-- Bertrand Russell
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."
-- Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
-- Bertrand Russell
As far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
-- Bertrand Russell
What is wanted is not the will to believe but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists -- that is why they invented hell."
-- Bertrand Russell
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
-- Bertrand Russell
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
-- Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves but wiser people are full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.
-- Bertrand Russell
People look ridiculous when they're in ecstasy.
-- David Byrne
Cruel men believe in a cruel God and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case.
-- Bertrand Russell
Back of tranquility lies conquered unhappiness.
-- David Grayson
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
-- Bertrand Russell
You can be a professional without being constipated about it.
-- David Keyser
"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world."
-- Russell Baker
Education's purpose is to replace an open mind with a full one.
-- David Nestor
"Intellectual brilliance is no guarentee against being dead wrong."
-- David Fasold
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
-- Bertrand Russell
Is it red or white wine with Tokyo?
-- David Adler as Godzilla
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily."
-- David Byrne
I pledge allegiance to the beer and kink
-- David Tennant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqqa3v4vW6w&t=302)
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
-- David Tyson Gentry
"I don't think you can be a true man until you've humiliated yourself before a woman."
-- David Duchovny
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason."
-- Bertrand Russell
What do you mean, "If a woodchuck could chuck wood"? What's the point in calling it a "woodchuck" if it can't ?
-- David Gunter
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
-- David H. Comins
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-- Henry David Thoreau
The disarmament of fear, in ourselves and those that oppose, propels us. Every step forward brings the possibility of backlash. But forward we go.
-- David G. Welton
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
-- Henry David Thoreau
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.
-- David Friedman