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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of gr

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? – Bertrand Russell

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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. – Bertrand Russell

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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell

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When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. – Henry David Thoreau

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I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting. – Leonardo DaVinci

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It takes a while, but eventually we appreciate that the people who were always there for the special occasions of our youth had other things to do. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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