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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

Alain de Botton

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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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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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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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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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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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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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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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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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