Alain de Botton Quotes
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
Alain de Botton
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
Karolina Kurkova
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
U2
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
Warren G
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
Karen Salmansohn
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
Viggo Mortensen
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In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
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I am baffled by many Western politicians who continually blame low-cost imported goods for their own economic challenges.
Dinesh Paliwal
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It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.
Patrick Campbell
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If you're doing anything disruptive, and if you know it to be good and true and progressive, let the naysayers fuel you to work harder and go faster and sleep less.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
Immanuel Kant
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
Alain de Botton