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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.

Alain de Botton

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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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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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Another Coming Connect Darker Mist Process Root Sketch Stem Tree
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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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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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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Accept Generous Gift never Offer People
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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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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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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