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Fix spelling of Bismarck's name and remove duplicate

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Bertrand Russell quotations.
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Thomas Gellekum 2002-09-11 11:21:36 +00:00
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@ -15830,7 +15830,7 @@ Wit, n.:
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With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I
try to be a fraud and a half.
-- Otto von Bismark
-- Otto von Bismarck
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With a rubber duck, one's never alone.
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

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@ -27009,10 +27009,6 @@ is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists
have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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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
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It has been said that Public Relations is the art of winning friends
and getting people under the influence.
-- Jeremy Tunstall
@ -35558,7 +35554,7 @@ People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an
election.
-- Otto Von Bismarck
-- Otto von Bismarck
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People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction
rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
@ -39544,10 +39540,6 @@ strength. For theirs is a strength born of things other than mere force.
Theirs is a strength supreme... theirs is the strength -- to restore.
-- Gerry Conway, "Thor", #193
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So far as I can remember, there is not one
word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
-- Bertrand Russell
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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far
as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical
way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
@ -51193,14 +51185,6 @@ big thumping lie that will then be believed.
-- Ministry of Information, memo on the maintenance of
British civilian morale, 1939
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928
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What is wanted is not the will-to-believe,
but the wish to find out, which is exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell
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What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
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What kind of sordid business are you on now? I mean, man, whither
@ -52470,7 +52454,7 @@ and everything will fall into place.
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When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that
you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
-- Otto Von Bismarck
-- Otto von Bismarck
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When you speak to others for their own good it's advice;
when they speak to you for your own good it's interference.