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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

Alain de Botton

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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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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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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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