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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing, I write all day. Other days, I sit around thinking. Or I run around from one meeting to another, out in the world. It varies, and I like that.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it's absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear, brusque, funny and polemical in the best way.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is militaristic-hegemonic-plutocratic side of the U.S. which is getting out of hand and threatens to corrupt the whole republic. I remain a deeply concerned, committed admirer, but also a very worried one.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a very aesthetic person.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020