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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
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Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
Alain de Botton
Distress
Losing
An object
Frustration
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
Alain de Botton
Journeys
Midwives
Thought
Few places
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
Alain de Botton
Heart
Every frustration
Basic structure
Collision
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Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Alain de Botton
Politics
So difficult
Only people
Quite up
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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
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
Alain de Botton
Feel otherwise
Enjoying life
More dangerous
Apprehending
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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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An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.
Alain de Botton
An urgent
Wish
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Sound solution
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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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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
Alan Cumming
Expert think
Have
Free generation
Mothers
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
Alan Cumming
Be who
You like
Mean it
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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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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
Alan Cumming
Scariest thing
Abuse
Shape
My opinion
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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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I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.
Alan Cumming
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Multitask
Well organised
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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
Alan Cumming
Good
Challenge
Yourself
Really daunting
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
Alan Bennett
Book
Device
Ignite
Imagination
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Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it
Alan Bennett
Books
Pasing time
Other worlds
Wanting time
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
Alan Bennett
Sometime
Next time
Second chance
Now
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing in capabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
Alan Bennett
History
Commentary
Continuing
In capabilities
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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
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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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Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?
Alan Bennett
Greater pleasure
Come across
An author
One enjoy
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History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so.
Alan Bennett
History
Nowadays
Matter
Conviction
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The more institutions and freedoms and benefits one can take for granted – of which in my view free state-supported galleries and museums come high on the list – the more civilised a society is.
Alan Bennett
More institutions
Freedom
Benefit
Granted
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The prime minister did not wholly believe in the past or in any lessons that might be drawn from it
Alan Bennett
Prime minister
Wholly believe
Past
Lesson
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You don't put your life into books. You find it there.
Alan Bennett
Don't put
Your life
Into books
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
Alain Badiou
Evil
Interruption
Truth
Pressure
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Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
Alain Badiou
Love
Only consist
In failure
Fallacious assumption
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
Alain Badiou
Have nothing
Their discipline
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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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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
Alain Badiou
Ethic
Truth
Complete opposite
Communication
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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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Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
Most government
Pragmatic
Logical
Pockets
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Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.
Al Capone
Mistake
My kindness
Weakness
Everyone
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I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
Al Capone
Be rich
Affluent
Greedy
Hell
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Al Capone
Can't collect
Legal taxes
Illegal money
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Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
Al Capone
Be careful
You call
Your friends
Four quarters
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I have no faith in anything. That consists of my fortune too.
Al Alvarez
Have
No faith
In anything
Consist
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The game’s language happens to be money, and therefore, it seems to be like gambling.
Al Alvarez
Game's language
Be money
Like gambling
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Divorce has the ability to convert habit into a drama.
Al Alvarez
Divorce
Ability
Convert habit
Drama
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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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Al Alvarez
Kill himself
Going through
Really
Torrid times
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time
Akira Kurosawa
Can't afford
Hate anyone
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