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Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the m

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. – Bertrand Russell

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. – Bertrand Russell

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell

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There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.” – Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns Fifty, 1998

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A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. – Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749

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Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way. – Lee Venden

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