"When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe, but look only and surely at what are the facts."

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Source : BBC interview on "Face to Face", 1959.

Bertrand Russell

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“At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.
“What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
“The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.”
“Sphinxes without secrets.”
“After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.”
“I lay in bed at night by myself and Iâ€™m totally okay, and thatâ€™s so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didnâ€™t have a boyfriend.”
“The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.”
“People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.”

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