I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.


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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...
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With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud w...
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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the ...
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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely...
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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
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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...
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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and fem...
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If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun...
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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.
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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by wearine...
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What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night an...
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure...
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There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
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There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
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The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing ev...
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One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p...
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It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate...
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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
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All movements go too far, and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi...
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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea...
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
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What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true ...
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i...
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte...
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have...
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ...
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly ...
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li...
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whet...
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston...
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but e...
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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and a...
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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the se...
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea...
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The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the...
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Do not fear to be excentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
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