A quotation from Bertrand Russell
All our affections are at the mercy of death, which may strike down those whom we love at any moment. It is therefore necessary that our lives should not have that narrow intensity which puts the whole meaning and purpose of our life at the mercy of accident. For all these reasons the man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 15 “Impersonal Interests” (1930)
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in reply to WIST Quotations • • •I remember this quote being a running gag at the WorldCon panel promoting the movie.
It was still in production, and they had a sign up sheet to be an extra in the audience for the sports ball scene they were shooting the following week at Cal State Long Beach.
I read the book between the con and the shoot (mostly - I think I actually brought it with me to finish during downtime) and really found myself wondering what the heck they were doing!
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