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Alain de Botton Quotes: Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
         

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.


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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.



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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.



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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.



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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.



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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.



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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.



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And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.



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The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.



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I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

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Give us the tools, and we will finish the job




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