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Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
-- Bertrand Russell |
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
-- Bertrand Russell |
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The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.
-- Bertrand Russell |
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
-- Bertrand Russell |
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.
-- Bertrand Russell |
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
-- Bertrand Russell |
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Between the tides and double tides, she'd always stop to dream.
For sometimes, it's the quiet ones who grow up to scream.
-- Beth Woodson |
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills |
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Dig a hole in your back yard while it is raining. Sit in the hole until the water climbs up around your ankles. Pour cold mud down your shirt collar. Sit there for forty-eight hours, and, so there is no danger of your dozing off, imagine that a guy is sneaking around waiting for a chance to club you on the head or set your house on fire. Get out of the hole, fill a suitcase with rocks, pick it up, put a shotgun in your other hand, and walk on the muddiest road you can find. Fall flat on your face every few minutes as you imagine big meteors streaking down to sock you. After ten or twelve miles (remember, you are still carrying the shotgun and suitcase) start sneaking through the wet brush. Imagine that somebody has booby-trapped your route with rattlesnakes which will bite you if you step on them. Give some friend a rifle and have him blast in your direction once in a while. Snoop around until you find a bull. Try to figure out a way to sneak around him without letting him see you. When he does see you, run like hell all the way back to your hole in the back yard, drop the suitcase and shotgun, and get in. If you repeat this performance every three days for several months you may begin to understand why an infantryman sometimes gets out of breath. But you still won't understand how he feels when things get tough.
-- Bill Mauldin |
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If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
-- Birgitte Silverbow, Robert Jordan |
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Not by speeches and majority votes are the great questions of the day decided, but by blood and iron.
-- Bismarck (contributed by Wink) |
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You know how they say "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger?" Well that's a crock... the truth is whatever doesn't kill you is your Life.
-- Bobbie Spencer |
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I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.
-- Boris Yeltsin, on the joys of driving his golf buggy |
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I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.
-- Boyd Rice |
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Then I saw a sign which said 'Drink Canada Dry' - so we started.
-- Brendan Behan |
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