We can actually see 3-meter-long (3-yard-long) stalactites, some of them touching the propane burners.


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A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress ...
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Change is one thing, progress is another. Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indub...
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he fi...
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly...
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by...
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The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap...
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The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ...
BERTRAND BARERE
In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. [Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux...
BERTRAND BARERE
Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers--(Nation Boutiquiere).
BERTRAND BARERE
Most people would rather die than think: many do.
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginar...
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss...
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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the...
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but...
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Sin is geographical.
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Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no lon...
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Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to d...
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very fe...
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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodi...
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires
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Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory...
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The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way
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What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life w...
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The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is off...
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One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p...
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
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An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to gro...
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are ...
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Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything...
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To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club ...
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread...
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and ...
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
BERTRAND BARERE
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not...
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