"[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.”
“I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers”

Source : John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.”
“On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.”
“Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.”
“If you are never satisfied with what you write, that is a good sign. It means that your vision can see so far that it's hard to come up to it. Again I say - the only unfortunate people are the glib ones, immediately satisfied with their work. To them, the ocean is only knee-deep.”
“Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.”

Source : Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.
“I like to play snooker, golf as well.”

Source : "Who do you like best, José, Avram or Big Phil?" by Oscar Witt, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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