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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.

Alain de Botton

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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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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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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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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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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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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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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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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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