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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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Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. – Bertrand Russell

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell

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Poetry
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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. – Bertrand Russell

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The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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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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But humor is too delicate and evanescent a thing to be extracted from a book like plums from a pudding. – Beatrix, “What to Read,” The Household, supplement to Michigan Farmer and State

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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. – Lord Acton

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt

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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. – John Lubbock

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