I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.


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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
RUSSELL BAKER
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
BERTRAND RUSSELL
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and f...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the si...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for examp...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far b...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
UTTERLY RUSSELL
The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token...
RUSSELL LYNES
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privileg...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The women's team dominance in the throws really set the tone for the squad. For the most part the di...
AARON RUSSELL
A couple injuries and sickness prevented the women's team from getting off to a better start. If we ...
AARON RUSSELL
We believe he was using jumper cables to start his tractor when the accident occurred.
AARON RUSSELL
Someone had come in to them and reported they had seen somebody digging what they thought was a grav...
AARON RUSSELL
With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War',
and I'm beginning to think they're right.
For war co...
NIPSEY RUSSELL
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more tha...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and fem...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by wearine...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night an...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act l...
DORA RUSSELL
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing ev...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
ROSALIND RUSSELL
It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
All movements go too far, and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL