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“A man is not allowed to practise medicine unless he knows something of the human body, but a financier is allowed to operate freely without any knowledge at all of the multifarious effects of his activities, with the sole exception of the effect upon his bank account.”
― Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

tags: finance, humor, idleness, philosophy

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“Helping is not, as conventionally thought, a charitable act that is praiseworthy to do but not wrong to omit. It is something that everyone ought to do.”
― Peter Singer, Practical Ethics

tags: climate-change, ethics, global-warming

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“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.”
― Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

tags: idleness, work

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“The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.”
― Third Earl Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness

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“Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.”
― Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness

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