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Sometimes God will do certain things to remind you that he alone is God. Just in case you forgot for a minute and became dependent on man. He will mess you up just to set things straight again. Trust and rely only on him.
Dupe Olusola
Sometimes God
Will do
Certain things
Remind you
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
Alain de Botton
Being understood
Sign
Much
In one
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
Alain de Botton
We seek
Deepest level
Resemble
Physically
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The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness"
Alain de Botton
Largest part
Personality
Determined
Opted
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
Alain de Botton
Difference between
Hope
Despair
Telling stories
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
Alain de Botton
The pleasure
We derive
Journey
Dependent more
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
Alain de Botton
Feeling lost
Crazy
Desperate
Good life
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.
Alain de Botton
The telephone
An instrument
Torture
Demonic hands
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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
Alain de Botton
Best cure
Bad tendencies
See them
Anther person
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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
Alain de Botton
Maturity
Knowing
You're crazy
Warn others
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
Alain de Botton
As adult
Develop
Character traits
Have rescued
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
Alain de Botton
We matured
Affection
Achievement
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
Alain de Botton
Notorious inability
Expression emotions
Human beings
Animal
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
Alain de Botton
Getting
The top
Unfortunate tendency
Persuade
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Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent and unbudgeable as those in food.
Alain de Botton
Best efforts
Critics
Hope
Authors
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When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.
Alain de Botton
Two people
[art
In love
Makes
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
Alain de Botton
Devilishly direct
Direct relationship
Nervous
Prospect
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
Alain de Botton
Materialistic view
Happiness
Age starkly
Revealed
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To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.
Alain de Botton
Appreciate life
Small moments
Helps
Made perfect
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The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.
Alain de Botton
The feeling
No time
Anything done
Provides
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I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!
Alan Cumming
Have
No regrets
My life
Crazy things
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
Alan Cumming
Not hard
Feel
Outsider
One time
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories
Alan Cumming
People
Deny themselves
Putting
Categories
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards
Alan Cumming
Grown up
Little boy
Exploded out
Life backwards
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Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.
Alan Cumming
Kids
Genuine
Come up
Talk
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
Alan Bennett
Book
Device
Ignite
Imagination
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
Alan Bennett
Hardest things
Boys
Learn
Teacher
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
Alan Bennett
One recipe
Happiness
Entitlement
Added
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
Alain Badiou
Love
Without risk
Impossibility
War
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
Alain Badiou
World
See
One experiences
Point
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
Alain Badiou
Truth
Subjective development
Universal
New
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In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
Alain Badiou
Improve democracy
Necessary
People
Ironically proposed
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
Alain Badiou
In love
Fidelity signifies
Extended victory
Randomness
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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
Speak English
Incapable
Internet
Regarded as
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No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
No company
Should depend
One person
Smart
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Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
Those people
Behind
The mosque
Respect
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Now I believe that writing is somewhat a risky trade out there.
Al Alvarez
I believe
Writing
Risky trade
Out there
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Simply speaking, despair is able to look for its own environment just as water which is able to locate its own level.
Al Alvarez
Despair
Look
Own environment
Water
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Al Alvarez
Going to
Commit suicide
Unless something
Terribly wrong
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People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better... They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
Akira Kurosawa
People
Have forgotten
Nature
Destroy
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality.
Akira Kurosawa
Find reality
Must search
Own universe
Details
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
Akira Kurosawa
Human beings
Share
Common problems
Understood
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
Akira Kurosawa
Dream
Are capable
The harder
Sooner
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There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
Aisha Tyler
A part
Every person
Entertained
Idealistic
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I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
Aisha Tyler
The kindest
Most supportive
Friend
Own detriment
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I'm surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!
Aisha Tyler
Surrounded
By genius
Personal
Self esteem
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I can't say that there's been some big change during my career where all of a sudden everything's totally colorblind.
Aisha Tyler
Big change
My career
Everything's totally
Colorblind
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I married my husband because I loved him, and I don't feel like there's anybody missing from our marriage, but when you think about this person that you love, and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world, I think that's the hardest part about all of it.
Aisha Tyler
Married
My husband
Loved him
Missing
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I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.
Aisha Tyler
Am black
Getting around
Define
Every aspect
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Leaders must learn to take well reasoned decisions that take on board only the best interest of the people
Adeleke Mamora
Leaders
Must learn
Well reasoned
Decisions
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