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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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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Equality
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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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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland

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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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The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. – William Jennings Bryan

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

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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. – Abraham Cahan

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