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Alain de Botton

"Everyone is extremely hard and troubled to be around. Everyone has something substantially wrong with them. Everyone is extremely hard to live with."

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Donna Grant

"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."

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Donna Grant

"Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry."I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves.Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy."

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Donna Grant

"We are very simple human until we learn to use the power of our divine love."

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Donna Grant

"Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being."

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Donna Grant

"Help humanity to help yourself. Love humanity to love yourself."

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Donna Grant

"Let us be wild and weird with love for humanity."

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Donna Grant

"We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!"

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Donna Grant

"Humility is one of the best expressions of self respect."

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Donna Grant

"We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it."

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Donna Grant

"Humans are created out of time."

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Alain de Botton
"We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us."

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Alain de Botton
"A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. People are only in danger of coming across as such when they either fail to understand their deeper selves or don't dare or know how to communicate them to others."

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Alain de Botton
"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."

Marriage

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Alain de Botton
"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."

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Alain de Botton
"We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety."

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Alain de Botton
"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."

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Alain de Botton
"If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us."

Psychology

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Alain de Botton
"My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense."

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Alain de Botton
"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough."

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Alain de Botton
"We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves."

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