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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Alain de Botton

to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
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Already Behaviour Design Force Mechanism Ourselves Patiently Unlearn
An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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Argument Attempt Couple Important Introduce Truth
Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Everyone Listen Worth
Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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Achieve Band Faculty Job Make Narrow Personality Reduce Change Relentless Round
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Apprehend Continous Dangerous Enjoy Feel More Otherwise
Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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Belive Cause Divorce Most Neat Necessary Other Unhappy
Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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Bad Choice Define Leave might Out Series Show
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Destiny Life Long Romantic Stronger
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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Civic Duty Frame Glorious Gratitude Make Money Pay Punishment Tax Worthy
Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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Ask Being Insult Marketplace Name Passerby Restore
Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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Direct Great Literature Machine Put Reality Simulator Witness
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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Activity Elevate Entrepreneur Force Formulation Ide Intent Inventor Vision World
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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Ask Author Book Kind Know Leave One
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Age Happiness Luxury Materialistic Reveal Starkly Understanding
Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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Every Time Feel Little Possess Rich Satisfy
Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Fera Good Most Origin Think

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