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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

Alain de Botton

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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Gym Need People Readily Resist Some Work
Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Awkward Beneath Cynic High Idealist Standard
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Act Best Most Revenge Victory Way
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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Anxiety Assuage Beauty Lose Photograph Place Possession Precious Sparkle Take
As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Built Matter Record Write
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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Acquaintance Acquire Beautiful Dialogue Grief Pain Thing Turn More Value
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
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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Achievement Always Fall First Humiliate Invest Price Sense Worth

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