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Alain de Botton

"The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives."

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"The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives."

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Brennan Manning

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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Brennan Manning

"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."

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Brennan Manning

"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."

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Brennan Manning

"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"

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Brennan Manning

"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"

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Brennan Manning

"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."

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Brennan Manning

"To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity."

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Brennan Manning

"Labor law violations are alive and well in the USA."

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Brennan Manning

"We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine."

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Brennan Manning

"None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations' ideas, customs, values, infatuations, prejudices, ethics, and mores. The lees wrought from our seedlings contribute to the social order that oversees a newborn's future. How we conduct ourselves in the here and now emulates our heritage, delineates the parameters of the present culture, and sets the embryonic stage for the emergent ethos of our future and for the generations of people whom we will never meet."

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Alain de Botton
"The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil."

War

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Alain de Botton
"What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation."

Society

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Alain de Botton
"Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people."

Self

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Alain de Botton
"The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury."

Philosophy

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Alain de Botton
"Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it."

Curiosity

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Alain de Botton
"I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas."

Ideas

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Alain de Botton
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."

Hope

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Alain de Botton
"To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. This isn't necessarily our fault as individuals. Society as a whole appears determined to render the single state as nettlesome and depressing as possible: once the freewheeling days of school and university are over, company and warmth become dispiritingly hard to find; social life starts to revolve oppressively around couples; there's no one left to call or hang out with. It's hardly surprising, then, if when we find someone halfway decent, we might cling."

Society

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"Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours."

Mind

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"At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judgement, when it might more accurately be categorized as a mere accident."

Relationship

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