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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

Other quotes by Bertrand Russell

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. – Bertrand Russell

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Torture
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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. – Bertrand Russell

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Farming
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. – Bertrand Russell

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Happiness
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Other Quotes from
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Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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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

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. – George Bernard Shaw

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Perspective

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? – John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914

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Perspective

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. – Author Unknown

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Fishing

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, thats when cuisine is truly exciting. – Charlie Trotter

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Knowledge

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. – Neil Armstrong

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Society

The total person sings not just the vocal chords. – Esther Broner

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Singing