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Quote by Alain de Botton

“Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.”

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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

“The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life. These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation.”

Reality Culture Force Powerful Effort Growing Plans Creation Institutions Openness Threatened Ephemeral Relativism God's Plan

Author:Pope Francis

“There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.”

Trying Careful Be Careful Ideological Colonization

Author:Pope Francis

“If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal.”

Ifs Mother Normal Curse Good Friend Drs Curse Words

Author:Pope Francis

“We're all a nation that believes we're children of the same god.”

Believe Children Nations

Author:Mitt Romney

“I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.”

Knows Eggs Baskets Dump Fellas Eggs In One Basket

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.”

Passion Sports

Author:Ernie Banks

“In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism”

Reality Age Exercise Mere Profound Meaningless New Age Guru Academia Masquerade Profound Truth Drivel

Author:Gad Saad

“The Japanese scientists just found a 25,000-year-old mammoth in the ice in Siberia, and they're about to clone it... You think the Japanese of all people would want nothing to do with prehistoric animals after what happened with Godzilla.”

People Thinking Want Years Found Animal Happened Scientist Ice Prehistoric Godzilla Siberia

Author:Greg Giraldo

“Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?”

Want Hero

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.”

America Wish Half Ocean Actresses Complaining Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery

Author:Bette Midler

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