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- When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
- It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you…
- It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in…
- You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
- Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there…
- The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
- We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs…
- A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity…
- In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because…
- The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as…
- Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us,…
- The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which…
- I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and…
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