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Politicians want people to be nice neighbours, but the tools at their disposal are just the tools of modern liberal society, which are nothing.
~ Alain de Botton
Be Nice
Disposal
Just
Liberal
Modern
Neighbours
Nice
Nothing
People
Politicians
Society
Tools
Want
Which
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Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.
~ Alain de Botton
Always
Art
Been
Christian
Clear
Clearly
Direct
Function
Good
Had
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Meant
Off
Religions
Score
Towards
Us
Very
Vice
West
Years
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Secular thinkers have a separation between thinking and doing. They don't have a grasp of the balance sheet. The doers are selling us potted plants and pizzas while the thinkers are a little bit unworldly. Religions both think and do.
~ Alain de Botton
Balance
Between
Bit
Both
Doers
Doing
Grasp
Little
Little Bit
Plants
Religions
Secular
Selling
Separation
Sheet
Think
Thinkers
Thinking
Us
While
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Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question of what art is for. This is a question that has, quite unfairly, come to feel impatient, illegitimate, and a little impudent.
~ Alain de Botton
20th Century
Address
Art
Been
Beginning
Century
Come
Feel
Has-Been
Illegitimate
Impatient
Institutional
Little
Profound
Public
Question
Quite
Relationship
Reluctance
Since
Unfairly
Weakened
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Small issues are really just large ones that haven't been accorded the requisite attention.
~ Alain de Botton
Attention
Been
Issues
Just
Large
Really
Requisite
Small
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.
~ Alain de Botton
Benefits
Christianity
Common
Compared
Except
Group
Human
Interests
Lots
Media
Nothing
People
Puts
Religion
Social
Social Media
Tends
Who
You
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Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.
~ Alain de Botton
Marry
Ourselves
People
Really
Reason
Some
Understand
Why
Wrong
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Sometimes I say to people, 'Do you think you're easy to live with?' People who are single. And the ones who say, 'Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty easy to live with; it's just a question of finding the right person,' massive alarm bell rings in my mind.
~ Alain de Botton
Alarm
Bell
Easy
Finding
Just
Live
Massive
Mind
People
Person
Pretty
Question
Right
Right Person
Rings
Say
Single
Sometimes
Think
Who
Yeah
You
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Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.
~ Alain de Botton
Aristocrat
Biography
Different
Family
French
Immigrant
Interpreted
Jews
Sometimes
Upbringing
Very
Were
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere - and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.
~ Alain de Botton
Anxiety
Because
Behind
Day
End
End Of The Day
Everywhere
Fear
Get
I Think
Interested
Masks
Opposite
Our
Really
Sensitivity
Sweetness
Think
Weakness
Which
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.
~ Alain de Botton
Accept
Arrogance
Between
Causes
Drives
Friendship
Important
Me
More
Nuts
Philosophy
Reasons
Relationship
Sadness
Says
Shyness
Than
Writing
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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.
~ Alain de Botton
Bad
Best
Cure
Developed
Else
Fully
See
Someone
Tendencies
Them
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The central task for a business is to make a profit. The challenge is to make a profit by doing things which are genuinely good for people and good for societies.
~ Alain de Botton
Business
Central
Challenge
Doing
Genuinely
Good
Make
People
Profit
Societies
Task
Things
Which
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The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'
~ Alain de Botton
Around
Art
Art Forms
Ask
Claims
Could
Find
Forms
Heart
How
Make
Making
More
Much
Music
Naturally
Place
Poetry
Relaxed
Simply
Those
Willing
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The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution.
~ Alain de Botton
Announced
Been
Death
Has-Been
Institution
Longevity
Marriage
Normal
Often
Seem
Sense
Sheer
Surprising
Tenacity
Would
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The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it's really for.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Argument
Art
Book
Confusion
Cultural
Easy
Essential
Financial
Forget
Persists
Prestige
Really
Therapy
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The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of course, the answer is very simple: 'I just observed myself without sentimentality.'
~ Alain de Botton
About
Answer
Compliment
Course
Did
Get
Greatest
How
Just
Know
Me
Much
Myself
Observed
People
People Say
Say
Sentimentality
Simple
Very
Without
Writing
You
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The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.
~ Alain de Botton
Achievements
Attracting
Been
Both
Disguise
Forced
Humanities
Matter
Money
Obsessed
Prestige
Really
Sake
Science
Students
Subjects
Themselves
Why
World
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The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised with.
~ Alain de Botton
Affect
Ambition
Beautiful
Book
Change
Great
Idea
Life
Make
Nietzsche
Perspective
Tolstoy
Would
Your
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The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.'
~ Alain de Botton
Alarm
Art
Asked
Bells
Cheer
Contend
Cultural
Egocentric
Elite
Empathetic
Function
Heart
Idea
Instrumental
Make
Might
More
Off
Perform
Person
Pill
Reasons
Set
Some
Something
Specific
Tends
Up
Use
Who
You
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