"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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"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.“
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"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
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