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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.

Alain de Botton

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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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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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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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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
It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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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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