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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
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
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War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
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Without civic morality communities perish without personal morality their survival has no value.
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The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.
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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.
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Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.
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