The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

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The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be. - Alain de Botton

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The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be. - Ayo Fayose quotes