Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. - Alain de Botton - Quotesmemo.com

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Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

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Alain de Botton

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

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Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

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In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's chief characteristic was that it represented a living arrangement with no future - and that future is now here.

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My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that.

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With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader. . . charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West. " Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public. . . are swept along.

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