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Relations Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
- Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
- 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.
- The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,…
- Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar,…
- Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely…
- It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires…
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- Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am… — Ernie Banks
- We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations… — Franklin P. Adams
- At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. — Henry Adams
- Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities,… — Amelia Barr
- Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish… — Pope Benedict XVI
- In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes,… — Claude Bernard
- Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as… — Annie Besant
- Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other. — Joe Biden
- Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. — Ambrose Bierce