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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.
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A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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