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Able Quotes by Alain de Botton
- No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at…
- It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings…
- Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost…
- We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a…
- Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
- My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon…
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
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- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
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