"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."
-Bertrand Russell
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"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.“
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"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
-Bertrand Russell
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"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so."
-Bertrand Russell
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"Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted."
-Bertrand Russell
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."
-Bertrand Russell
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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
-Robert Wyatt
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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."
-Marvin Gaye
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"I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it."
-Lucy Hale
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"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."
-John Clayton
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"There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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