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The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.
- People
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Therapy and counseling can do wonderful things for people. But they have emerged so far as what are sometimes called 'cottage industries' - that is, as individuals or small groups offering generally quite expensive services to a few clients.
- Challenge
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The central task for a business is to make a profit. The challenge is to make a profit by doing things which are genuinely good for people and good for societies.
- Hurt
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Most of the time, we make discoveries about how difficult people are at the moment when the difficulties have actually hurt us; therefore, we are not likely to be forgiving or sympathetic.
- Feeling
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In the early days of love sometimes, you will report an ecstatic feeling you have met someone who seems to understand you without you needing to speak.
- Feelings
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If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.
- Myself
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I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to be laughed at or denigrated.
- Good Ideas
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I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.
- Heart
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The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'
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My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.
- End Of The Day
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere - and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.
- People
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Sometimes I say to people, 'Do you think you're easy to live with?' People who are single. And the ones who say, 'Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty easy to live with; it's just a question of finding the right person,' massive alarm bell rings in my mind.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020