The Bertrand Russell quote I tweeted seems to be quite popular. It comes from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1950): http://bit.ly/VJmikM
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@PhilosophyExp Clever man. [choice between democracy and a bag of grain], at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?
@H_Haagenrud Most people, at a very early stage of starvation, I'd have thought. This is a variation on Maslow's hierarchy of needs stuff.
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@PhilosophyExp yes, but the idea of an equation, an average, was (as most things) new to me. Mainly thought of the hierarchiy as absolutes.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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