"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

Age, Power, Admiration, Ideology

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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

Age, Business, Dad, Cows

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

Age, Guitar, Play, Poems

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

Age, Information, Philosophy, Talk

"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Age, Women, Fear, Living

"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Age, Aging, Speech, Wisdom, Time

"That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'"

Richard Dean Anderson, American Actor

Age, Wife, Fun, Moments

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Time, Old

Explore more quotes by Bertrand Russell

"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."

Struggle

"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."

Reasoning

"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."

Achievement

"One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor."

Governance

"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

Food

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."

Happiness

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."

Intelligence

"Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?"

Knowledge

"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."

Wisdom

"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic."

History