
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
– Alain de Botton
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- Why do people believe what they read in the newspapers, but question what they read in the Bible? – Denise R Solomon
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- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
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- You won’t find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.- -”Ebb Autumn – Richard Due
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- Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. – Margaret Thatcher
- The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation. – Jay Samit
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- Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. . . do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd. – Exodus NIVHoly Bible
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- It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded… – Alain de Botton
- The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that’s one of the absurdist expectations of all. – Alain de Botton
- As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. – Alain de Botton
- A good half of the art of living is resilience. – Alain de Botton
- Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. – Alain de Botton
- Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don’t yet know what to do with. – Alain de Botton
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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
- The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible. – Alain de Botton
- Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains. – Alain de Botton
- Insomnia is his mind’s revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours. – Alain de Botton
- Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money. – Alain de Botton
- The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person. – Alain de Botton
- Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. – Alain de Botton
- The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent. – Alain de Botton
- Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back. – Alain de Botton
- The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice. – Alain de Botton
- Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold. – Alain de Botton
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