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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

Alain de Botton

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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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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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What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.
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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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Conscious Employing Less Medium Pay Rather Substitute Supplement Used
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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