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The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one.

~Bertha Von Suttner

Topics: Always Been Bringing Down Down To Earth Earth Eternal Forms Human Long Making Practical Process Right Stars Them Then Truth Understanding Use Vitality

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Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time.

~Bertie Carvel

Topics: Adult Amazement Been Challenge Children Delight Discover Discovery Doing Every Every Time Going Gone Instinctive Joy Keep Ourselves Professionally Sense Stale Time Us Working

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I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

~Bertie Carvel

Topics: Accurate Also Although Away Been Carried Could Day Deliver Edit Every Every Day Find Get Imagine Interviews Me People Quite Reduced Something Then Who Wish Work

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As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.

~Bertil Ohlin

Topics: Accepted Age Bake Been Best Cakes Calculating Choice Cost Due Economics Fact Five Fond Had Latter Mathematics Mother Parents Proposed Said School Statistics Studies Subject University Used Various Very Years

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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

~Bertolt Brecht

Topics: Always Been Carry Even Finest Out Plans Should Spoiled Them Themselves

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

~Bertrand Russell

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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Been Christian Christian Religion Churches Deliberately Enemy Moral Organized Principal Progress Quite Religion Say Still World

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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: All My Life Animal Been Could Evidence Life Man My Life Rational Said Searching Support Which

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No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Asking Beautiful Been Chimney Does Hoot Matter Mockingbird Proper Question Real Singing Usual Why Wrong

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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Been Destruction Excuse Insight Love Made Mass Mass Destruction Means Our Persecution Religions Scientific Teach Used

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