Quote by Bertrand Russell
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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. – Bertrand Russell

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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. – Bertrand Russell

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No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus. – Cicero

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I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. – Marcus Porcius Cato

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I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose. – Mary Todd Lincoln

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Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. – Author Unknown

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