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  1. Alain de Botton _ Religion for Atheists: A

    We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures, how rife with misunderstandings are our relationships, how deep are our sorrows. Melodrama is individually always the order of the day.
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  2. Alain de Botton _ Religion for Atheists: A

    There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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  3. Alain de Botton _ The Pleasures and Sorrows of

    He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ American Gods

    It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
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  5. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    I'm not against anyone fastening their life to an event of some significance and that way making themselves significant. God knows, we need what footholds we can find on the glass mountain of our existence. Trouble is, you climb and climb, and around middle age, you discover you have spent all the time in the same spot. You thought you were going to be somebody until you slip down into the nobody that you are. I'm telling you because I know.
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  6. Rick Warren _ The Purpose Driven Life: What

    Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
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  7. Rebecca Goldstein _ Plato at the Googleplex: Why

    The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.
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  8. Charles R. Swindoll _ Moses: A Man of Selfless

    God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life."
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  9. Mitch Albom _ For One More Day

    I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?""You know. Someone you forget."From the other room came the squeals of children. Miss Thelma turned her chin to the sound. She smiled,"That's what keeps me from being forgotten.
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