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Certainly thinking is pleasant, but the pleasure of thinking must be subordinated to the art of making decisions. - Alain
" "Certainly thinking is pleasant, but the pleasure of thinking must be subordinated to the art of making decisions.
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Émile Auguste Chartier (3 March 1868 – 2 June 1951), who wrote under the pseudonym Alain, was a notable French essayist, philosopher, journalist, pacifist and teacher, noted for his profound influence on his pupils, who included Raymond Aron, Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Georges Canguilhem, and André Maurois.
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