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Russell, George William
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Russell, Lord John
1792–1878
1
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
reply to an Address from a meeting of 150,000 persons at Birmingham on the defeat of the second Reform Bill, October 1831

S. Walpole
Life of Lord John Russell
(1889) vol. 1, ch. 7

2
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

speech at Greenock, 19 September 1853

Russell, William Howard
1820–1907
1
They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.
of the Russians charging the British at the battle of Balaclava, 1854

The British Expedition to the Crimea
(1877); Russell's original dispatch read, "That thin red streak topped with a line of steel"

Rutherford, Ernest
1871–1937
1
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

J. B. Birks
Rutherford at Manchester
(1962)

2
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!

in
Bulletin of the Institute of Physics
(1962) vol. 13 (as recalled by R. V. Jones)

Ryle, Gilbert
1900–76
1
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

The Concept of Mind
(1949) introduction

2
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine.
on the mental-conduct concepts of Descartes

The Concept of Mind
(1949) ch. 1

S
Sackville-West, Vita
1892–1962
1
The greater cats with golden eyes
Stare out between the bars.

The King's Daughter
(1929) pt. 2, no. 1

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