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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.

Alain de Botton

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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Compensate Home Much Need Physical Psychological Vulnerability
It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Began Conversation Drunkard Fall Humiliate Public Stranger
The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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Embed Everyday Find Good Practice Problem
When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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Look Moon More Often Perspective Problem Really Small Think
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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Act Draw Drawer Like Look Object Sense Swiftly
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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Conscious Contribute Create Enthusiasm Guide Merely More Single
People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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Bar Cage Interest People Rattle Really Start
There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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Business Card Danger Dep Disconnect Inside
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Angry Cease Hopeful Once
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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Attention Fortune Greater Look People Reason Respect Seek Straight
Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Dance Forgot Glamorous Insomnia Term Thought
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
Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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Control Crazy Know Maturity Try Under
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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Mimic Mind Paralyse Properly Recusant Suppose Think
It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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Close Come Find Something Understanding
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

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