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True Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
- True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.
- The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be…
- We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our…
- 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…
- It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the…
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- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
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