Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Adam Lambert: Mind control
“There’s a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they’re being controlled. They’re being told what to think, what to do, and what to eat.” —Adam Lambert.
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Billy Porter: Completely empowering and exhilarating
“When you’re doing what you love, it’s not exhausting at all, actually. It’s completely empowering and exhilarating.” —Billy Porter.
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C S Lewis: Immortals
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal… It is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit… Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.” —C. S. Lewis,The Weight of Glory.
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Melody Thornton: Pieces of a puzzle
“We all fit like pieces of a puzzle. Everybody’s input and their journeys and where they’ve been help put that puzzle together.” – MELODY THORNTON.
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Ita Buttrose: Temporary setback
“Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.” —Ita Buttrose.
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Simone Signoret: Against anyone he wronged
“He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.” —Simone Signoret.
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George Bernard Shaw: Differing tastes
“Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Laurie Penny: New trophy wife in tech
“‘The new trophy wife in tech isn’t the hot young model. It’s the most brilliant, accomplished woman you can get to give up her career to have your kids.’ – a woman who works tech told me this two years ago and it still haunts me.” —Laurie Penny.
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C S Lewis: Other people’s souls
“What can you ever really know of other people’s souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands.” —C S Lewis.
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Thomas Carlyle: Not a matter for sorrow
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.” —Thomas Carlyle.
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Louis Kronenberger: Excellent time for outrage
“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” —Louis Kronenberger.
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Meg Ryan: Bad flue
“I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it’s just got a bad flue.” —Meg Ryan.
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Jayalitha: Good and bad
“Good or bad, it depends on how you think about it. For a plan you can find the sides, the good and bad. Just like in every deed, good and bad are two sides of the same coin. It depends on their mind.” —Jayalitha.
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Sridevi: Authoritative quarters
“Acknowledgement and recognition from authoritative quarters are important to every artiste.” —Sridevi.
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Jennifer Lawrence: Silence encourages the tormentor
“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” — Jennifer Lawrence.
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Bertolt Brecht: Dark times
“In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing About the dark times.” —Bertolt Brecht.
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Madhubala: Happiness comes first
“To be beautiful means a lot, but not everything. Happiness comes first.” —Madhubala.
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Hannah Arendt: Totalitarian rule
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.
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G K Chesterton: Everything to someone
“How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?” —G K Chesterton.
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Tina Turner: You can’t get hung up on age or beauty
“You can’t get hung up on age or beauty because you’re then always chasing after something you’ll never get back.” —Tina Turner.
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Jitendra Attra: Fear and joy
“Fear and Joy are two significant words. All you have to do is to increase the component of one and reduce the other.” —Jitendra Attra.
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Peter Frampton: You can only wake me up
“You can’t erase a dream, you can only wake me up.” —Peter Frampton.
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G K Chesterton: Woman a victim and nothing else
“It is utterly astounding to note the way in which modern writers and talkers miss this plain, wide, and overwhelming fact: one would suppose Woman a victim and nothing else.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: They want to destroy womanhood
“Most of the Feminists would probably agree with me that womanhood is under shameful tyranny in the shops and mills. But I want to destroy the tyranny. They want to destroy womanhood. That is the only difference.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Suffragist argument
“Under a thousand phrases and in a thousand forms the whole Suffragist argument seems to me to amount to this: Here is a thing which men do; and why should not women do it? That question seems to be the whole argument, and that question is rubbish.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Drudgery and enterprise
“We live in an age in which everything done inside a house is called ‘drudgery’ while anything done inside an office is called ‘enterprise.’” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Refusal to be feminine
“Feminism often means the refusal to be feminine.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Stenographers
“Ten million young women rose to their feet with the cry, We will not be dictated to: and proceeded to become stenographers.” —G K Chesterton.
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Meher Baba: What helping others can do
“No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.” —Meher Baba.
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Gary Sinise: Always keep the engine running
“Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.” —Gary Sinise.
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Dianne Feinstein: Nuclear weapons paradox
“Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them.” —Dianne Feinstein.
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Pat Riley: Compete even harder
“When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle.” —Pat Riley.
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Sean Kross: Different cognitive load
“Reading a poem induces a different cognitive load compared to reading a novel.” —Sean Kross.
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Clark Gable: Dying’s as natural as living
“Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying’s as natural as living. The man who’s too afraid to die is too afraid to live.” —Clark Gable.
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Kanji Watanabe: Can’t afford to hate anyone
“I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.” —Kanji Watanabe.
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Warren Buffett: Volume trends for everybody
“It is true that in the packaged goods industry, volume trends for everybody — whether they’re fat or lean in their operation — volume trends are not good. And the test will be over time — you know, three, five years — are the operations which have had their costs cut, do they do poor,…
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Henry David Thoreau: Want of prudence
“Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference. What we need to know in any case is very simple.” —Henry David Thoreau.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Deformity of vice
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.” —Eleanor Roosevelt.
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W Somerset Maugham: Old age has its pleasures
“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.” —W. Somerset Maugham.
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Benjamin Franklin: Difference between failure and success
“The difference between failure and success is the difference between doing something almost right and doing something right.” – Benjamin Franklin.
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Marie Kondo: Why we can’t let something go
“But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.” —Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.
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Andre Maurois: Indifference of the soul
“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.” —Andre Maurois.
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Fred Astaire: Start young
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” —Fred Astaire.
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Golda Meir: Old age
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” —Golda Meir.
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G K Chesterton: Humility
“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing, or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are, of immeasurable stature.” —G K Chesterton.
