Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

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Victor Daniels

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

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Italian Proverb

Let every fox take care of his own tail.

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David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach

Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.

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Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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Blessing Irish

At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat.

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Alexander Pope

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.

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Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

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Lawrence Peter Berra

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself

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