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Making Quotes by Alain de Botton
- The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under…
- The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we…
- what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world…
- Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
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