"Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance."

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Alain de Botton

#Careers Quotes #Two Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.”

Source : Richard Baxter (2014). “The Reformed Pastor”, p.63, Lulu.com
“I always worry that me by myself, I'm doing the same thing I'm always doing and become too lazy and conservative in what I do, or too incestuous in my own thoughts.”
“I don't know how the heart withstands it.”
“Citizenship has not delivered Indigenous Australians the same quality of life other Australians expect. Basic human rights involve health, housing, education, employment, economic opportunity, and equality before the law, and respect for cultural identity and cultural diversity. These human rights must be capable of being enjoyed otherwise they are empty gestures.”
“we dig our graves with our teeth.”
“I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist.”

Source : "‘I’m anti-Zionist,’ Helen Thomas declared, in twilight of long career" by Philip Weiss, mondoweiss.net. July 21, 2013.
“I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.”
“No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.”

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