"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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― Bertrand Russell
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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 longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite."
- "Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
- "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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- "Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."― Samuel Johnson
- "There’s places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say ‘let’s just build a fence’ and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it’s going to secure the border, that’s not reality."― Rick Perry
- "I didn’t devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important."― Catherine Deneuve