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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: british
Birth: May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970

Topics

Work People Wish Personal Duty

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

Work Me Work Hard Win You Know

I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.

Life Best People Crazy Think Done

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

Food Weather Mean Literacy Come

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

Life Travel Me Reality You More

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Man Plants Animals Same Individual

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

Impress Old Fail Role Even General

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Reaction Always Photograph Oneself

By New Year's Eve, we're so done going out we usually just light a fire, play one last card game, and watch the ball drop in our jammies.

Mary Page Keller

Light Fire Game Year Play New

I have never had any success in planning my life, really.

Mary Steenburgen

Life Success Planning My Life Never

In Germany, the body is treated rather differently than in the U.K. or U.S. I grew up with a swimming pool in our garden and a sauna in our basement.

Swimming Body Garden Pool Up Rather

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

Medical Color Think Down Pilot Way

I think people got this idea that I wanted to be a star. Managers of the past don't have any kind of public persona - it's all about the fame of the artist. I really don't want to be a star. I just want to have a platform.

Past People Think Artist Want Kind

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