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Quote by Bertrand Russell
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long p

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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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. – Bertrand Russell

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. – Bertrand Russell

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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and youre a thousand miles from the corn field. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. – George Crabbe

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It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. – Cato The Elder

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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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