Quote by Bertrand Russell
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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Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be. – Bertrand Russell

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Pornography
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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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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. – Bertrand Russell

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People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped. – Author Unknown

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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. – Carl Gustav Jung

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What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. – Norman Cousins

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What if when you die, they ask “How was heaven?” – Author Unknown

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The world is not dialectical — it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. – Jean Baudrillard

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The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth. – Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist, 1941

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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. – Ram Dass

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History is a great dust heap. – Thomas Carlyle, Obiter Dicta

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