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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relati

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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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. – Bertrand Russell

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respect
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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. – Bertrand Russell

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Age
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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. – Bertrand Russell

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Philosophical
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that wont work. – Thomas A. Edison

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. – Thomas Huxley

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work

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work. – Alvin Ailey

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work

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. – Thomas Aquinas

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work

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