"It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Pigs Quotes #Dignity Quotes #Devotion Quotes

“Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.”
“...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.”
“I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.”
“I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'”
“One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.”
“If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.”
“So Carol, you're a housewife and mother. And have you got any children?”
“What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss even the limitation of slavery; while he had only the most feeble means of enforcement. The British and the French could do their emancipating at a distance; Lincoln had armed resistance almost literally at his doorstep.”

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