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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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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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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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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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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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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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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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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