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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. Bertrand Russell

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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. Bertrand Russell

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. Bertrand Russell

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It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. Bill Brandt

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That's what the 'Doctor' is about, essentially - having that energy that you just can't understand. Billie Piper

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An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone. Billy Bragg

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But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now. Billy Bragg

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It's your life, live it your way. Bob Hoskins

Life Live Way Your

If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more. Boris Johnson

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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. Boris Johnson

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I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do. Boris Johnson

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I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I remember once I rang the official who was actually responsible for banning the prawn-cocktail-flavoured crisp, which I think contained a dye called Arithrazine or something like that. Boris Johnson

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I feel like I was born to ride the track. Bradley Wiggins

Ride Born Feel Like Track

I can get obsessive with my training, but it makes you who you are. Bradley Wiggins

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Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them. Brian Eno

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Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it. Brian Eno

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I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender. Brian Eno

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. 'Discreet Music' was like that, and 'Music for Airports.' What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out. Brian Eno

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. C. Northcote Parkinson

Better Has-Been Than

The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed. Caitlin Moran

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I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being. Caitlin Moran

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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream. Cameron Mackintosh

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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then. Cameron Mackintosh

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If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it. Carol Ann Duffy

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about. Cary Elwes

Life Learning About Still

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are. Cat Stevens

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