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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Alain de Botton

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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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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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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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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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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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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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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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Architect Manipulation Prefer Shy Space Themselves Word

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