Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
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Brenda Russell
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David O. Russell
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