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Quote by Bertrand Russell
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued beca

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. – Bertrand Russell

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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earths surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so. – Bertrand Russell

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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. – Bertrand Russell

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. – Bertrand Russell

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Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you arent. – Margaret Thatcher

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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. – J. William Fulbright

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More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors. – Simon Mainwaring

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The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. – Herodotus

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God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. – Author unknown, commonly attributed to Martin Luther

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I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. – Constance Baker Motley

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As a child, I wanted only two things – to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money. – Julie Burchill

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Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as tis today. – Lope de Vega

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