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“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”

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Alain de Botton is a Swiss writer and philosopher known for his books on philosophy, art, and culture. His work is characterized by its accessible exploration of profound themes, which has won him a wide audience. more

“If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected, and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.”

People Ifs Mind Done Humanity Justice Victory Labor Abuse Slave Humanism Driven Hungry Naked Destroyed Triumph Feds Superstitions Protected Defenseless

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Humans Reason Values Interest Succeed Capable Humanism Guides Developing Serving Humanist Satisfying Human Needs

Author:Isaac Asimov

“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.”

People Long Stories Running Certain Known Statements Statistics Satisfying Long Runs Storyteller Embarrassment

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead”

Plant Tricky

Book:The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“The freedom of birds is an insult to me.”

Bird Insult

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

“This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.”

Knows Moments Joy Painful Pierce

Book:The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot

“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Made Matter Done Use Today Language Progress Economic Citizens Noise Interfere Remorse Accused Private Life Neighbour Spit Singapore Economic Progress Personal Matter

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

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