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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.

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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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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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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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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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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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