If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

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"This has been my life; I found it worth living."

- Bertrand Russell

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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

- Bertrand Russell

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"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."

- Bertrand Russell

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"Although both love and knowledge are necessary, love is in a sense more fundamental since it will lead intelligent people to seek knowledge in order to find out how to benefit those whom they love. But if people are not intelligent, they will be content to believe what they have been told and may do harm in spite of the most genuine benevolence."

- Bertrand Russell

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"“This has been my life; I found it worth living.”"

- Bertrand Russell

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"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

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"Tuesdays are for chasing rainbows and dancing in the rain."

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"You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness."

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"Taste and see how good the Lord is! The one who takes refuge in him is truly happy!"

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"The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays."

- W. C. Jones

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