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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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell

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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. – Bertrand Russell

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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars. – André Gide, Journals, 4 August 1930

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Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing? – Martin Marty

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I will not die an unlived life…. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. – Dawna Markova

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Self-pity is… a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. – Elizabeth Elliot

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