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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

Alain de Botton

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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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