"It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great."

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Alain de Botton

#Thinking Quotes #Self Hatred Quotes

“The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.”
“Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.”
“In summary, our world is doomed.”

Source : "Screenwipe", Season 4, Episode 4, October 16, 2007.
“One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.”
“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.”
“My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please”

Source : Amerigo Vespucci (1916). “Letter to Piero Soderini, Gonfaloniere: The Year 1504”
“We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human”

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