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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

Alain de Botton

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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
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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Alcohol Day Hard Logic Long Need Reveal
Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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Blankly Chair Describe Disrespect Doing Gaze Nothing Sit Someone Think Window
How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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Accept Generous Gift never Offer People
To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
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Concern Flourish Listen Love Note Object Ourselves Presence Register Shown View
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
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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Admit Confident Curious Dark Ignorance Know Take
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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Archive Enough Ordinary Strive Virtuous Wisdom
As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Built Matter Record Write
Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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All Round Coax Information Mind Newspaper Out Post Rather Read
Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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Childlike Journey Life Nourish Precious Relevant Secular Seem Vulnerable
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Anyone Fascinate Marriage Married
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Majority People Reason Respectability Stem
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Apprehend Continous Dangerous Enjoy Feel More Otherwise
Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Accumpilate Inform Intuition Judgement Real Time Unconscious
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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Behaviour Forgive Malice Require Sense Sign Suffer

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