An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
- Russell Baker - In Education
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
- Bertrand Russell - In Equality
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell - In Government
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell - In Love
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- Russell Baker - In Nature
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Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
- James Russell Lowell - In Nature
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
- Bertrand Russell - In Nature
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell - In Patriotism
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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 - In Poetry
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
- Russell Baker - In Politics
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
- Russell Baker - In Science
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell - In Science
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russell Baker - In Society
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The Present is a Point just passed.
- David Russell - In Time
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell - In War
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- Bertrand Russell - In War
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell - In Words to the Wise
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