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Sin is geographical. - Bertrand Russell

Sin is geographical. – Bertrand Russell

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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. – Bertrand Russell

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good
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Bertrand Russell
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. – Bertrand Russell

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Time
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. – Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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Perspective

To live in scarcity is to worry about the cost of food; to live in abundance is to worry about who else you can invite for dinner. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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Perspective

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. – Samuel Grafton

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Perspective

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Perspective

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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. – Honore de Balzac

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Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I dont think thats extraordinary. Im a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy. – Nick Offerman

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In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then. – Arthur Bremer

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smile

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black mans right to his body, or womans right to her soul. – Emma Goldman

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History