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It's easy to forget how little strategic thinking ever gets done in the day. Judging by the ideas generated there, our beds have more of a right to be called our offices than our offices.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Beds Day Done Easy Ever Forget Gets How Ideas Judging Little More Offices Our Right Strategic Than Thinking

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As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person.

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Topics: Another Area Good How Improve Loving Person

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One of the most welcome aspects of office work is that you do not need to be fully yourself.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Aspects Fully Most Need Office Welcome Work You Yourself

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The person who is truly best suited to us is not the person who shares our tastes, but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently and wisely.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Best Differences Negotiate Our Person Shares Suited Taste Tastes Truly Us Who Wisely

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We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Anything Anything Else Else Love Matters Must Study Way

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Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Advertising Anew Art Forced Genuine Lead Life Merit Need Opposite Really Show Things Unattainable Us

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: December 20th, 1969

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