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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.

Alain de Botton

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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Everyone Listen Worth
Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
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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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Comfortable Do Edge Excite Fulfill Quite Work
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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Embed Everyday Find Good Practice Problem
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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Compensate Home Much Need Physical Psychological Vulnerability
As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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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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Ask Author Book Kind Know Leave One
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Destiny Life Long Romantic Stronger
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
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind.
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Before Blend Define Joy Melancholy Perfection Sadness Sear
People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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Anticipation Instrument Memory Selection Similar Simplification
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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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Act Best Most Revenge Victory Way
Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Accumpilate Inform Intuition Judgement Real Time Unconscious

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