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The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a sing...

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That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also lo...

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It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to informat...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfacti...

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It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined t...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent techno...

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If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I woul...

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I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left ...

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What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming,...

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I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other s...

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While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new worl...

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Jhumpa LahiriInterpreter of Maladies

To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious se...

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Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of condi...

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On his thirteenth birthday he had seen a film in which the central character was a painter who, unab...

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