Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Benjamin Franklin: Valet de place
“I have long observed one rule which prevents any inconveniences from such practices. It is simply this: to be concerned in no affairs I should blush to have made public, and to do nothing but what spies may see and welcome. When a man’s actions are just and honorable, the more they are known, the…
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G K Chesterton: Modern Thought
“We talk, by a sort of habit, about Modern Thought, forgetting the familiar fact that moderns do not think. They only feel, and that is why they are so much stronger in fiction than in facts; why their novels are so much better than their newspapers.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Terrible truce
“That terrible truce in which the lion lies down with the lamb is a vision, not a daily rule. For natural purposes, we assert our family against our fellow-countrymen, our country against humanity, humanity against nature.” —G K Chesterton.
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Christopher Dawson: Libido and ego
“For Luther sin is passion, for Catholicism sin is in the will — the act of choice. In Freudian terms Luther’s sin is libido, Catholic sin is ego.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Joseph Sobran: Remedial English
“In one hundred years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching remedial English in college.” —Joseph Sobran.
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Pamela Adlon: Best and worst
“Everybody hates you when you’re the best, and everybody hates you when you’re the worst.” —Pamela Adlon.
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Emma Thompson: They’re kinder
“It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.” —Emma Thompson.
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Peggy Noonan: Wit and humor
“Wit penetrates; humor envelopes. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.” — Peggy Noonan.
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Ogden Nash: There was a young man of Herne Bay
“There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the gunpowder jar. There was a young man of Herne Bay.” —Ogden Nash.
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Louis Srygley: Art of adding bugs
“Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.” – Louis Srygley.
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G K Chesterton: Refutation of a moral statement
“The refutation of a moral statement must be that it is immoral. And the energy with which we state it to be grossly, shamefully or shockingly immoral is but a measure of the actual psychological reaction against it, and part of the argument itself.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Chief objection to baby-killing
“Suppose I produced a defense of infanticide; I am sure comments would not err on the side of calm. But the point is that anger would be part of the argument. The immediate moral repulsion would be one of the objections to baby-killing; perhaps the chief objection to baby-killing.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Liking
“The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he ‘likes’ them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on – including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.” —C S Lewis.
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Marian Anderson: Fear
“Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.” —Marian Anderson, singer (27 Feb 1897-1993).
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Mason Kaiser: I lost my llama
‘I lost my llama, so I called up my Mama, She said, “Stop your drama!” Look for the llama; are you sure it’s gone? Is it on the lawn? I checked there already. She gave up and said, “Talk to your dad”. I told my dad that I was sad. He just sounded mad when…
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John Piper: Prayerlessness
“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.” —John Piper.
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Ariana Grande: Meditation
“Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.” —Ariana Grande.
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Zed A Shaw: Where there is none
“The lovely world with logic so firmly planted cannot discern the needs of love nor comprehend passion from intuition and requires an explanation where there is none.” —Zed A Shaw.
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Sir Edmund Hilary: Accomplish extraordinary things
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Sir Edmund Hilary.
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Shane Parrish: Key to learning
“Failure is more likely to trigger reflection than success. Reflection, not experience, is the key to learning.” —Shane Parrish.
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G K Chesterton: Absence of self-criticism
“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.” —G K Chesterton.
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Michael Cohen: Positions and wives
“People change their positions all the time, the way they change their wives.” —Michael Cohen.
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Gwen Stefani: Two different worlds
“Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless – two different worlds.” —Gwen Stefani.
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Elizabeth Taylor: Pretty annoying virtues
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” —Elizabeth Taylor.
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Simon Sinek: All success starts with one
“All success starts with one. One step. One client. One order. One sale. While dreams of greatness are great, we must remember to appreciate the joy of the start.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nina Kuscsik: Form of meditation
“I’ve always felt running is a form of meditation. Running enables us to stop our lives, to go out and find a safe place for ourselves.” —Nina Kuscsik.
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G K Chesterton: Equally stupid
“I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. While the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.” —G K…
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Victor Hugo: Humankind’s wounds
“Humankind’s wounds, those huge sores that litter the world, do not stop at the blue and red lines drawn on maps.” —Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885).
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Katie Price: All I want is a gentleman
“All I want is a gentleman. I’m sick to bloody death of bastards.” —Katie Price.
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Chris Evans: I love things
“I consider myself a very romantic guy. I don’t necessarily consider romance to be isolated simply between two people. I’m romantic with my love of music or art or nature. I love things.” —Chris Evans.
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Peter Farrelly: Confidence to try different things
“Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there’s stress or tension, they won’t go out on a limb because they won’t want to embarrass themselves if they don’t feel completely comfortable.” —Peter Farrelly.
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Cardinal George Pell: Brilliantly foolish
“Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.” —Cardinal George Pell.
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John Legend: All men should be feminist
“All men should be feminist. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place.” – John Legend.
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C S Lewis: God’s love and goodness
“God’s love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has.” C S Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
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Charlize Theron: Dark films
‘Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them “dark films” it annoys me, because they’re very real stories. They’re stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.’ —Charlize Theron.
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Trevor Noah: Fishing rod
‘People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.’ —Trevor Noah, Born a…
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Christopher Dawson: Claims the whole man
“If religion loses its hold on social life, it eventually loses its hold on life altogether. And this is what’s happened in the case of Europe. The secularized civilization is not content to dominate the outer world and leave man’s inner life to religion; it claims the whole man.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Brie Larson: Ornate jackets
“I’m really not interested in acting as a facade, I’m interested in it as an emotional expression and as a transcendent experience for an individual. I find that a lot of people, a lot of young actors, haven’t gotten to the point where they’re comfortable being stripped down. They’re still interested in ornate jackets.” —Brie…
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Glenn Close: What mental health needs
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.” —Glenn Close.
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Irina Shayk: Longer dress
“In this modern world, in the 21st century, I really believe that if you have a baby, it doesn’t mean that you have to wear a longer dress.” —Irina Shayk.
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Alex Honnold: More climbs than I can count
“I’ve walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.” – Alex Honnold.
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Erykah Badu: I share what I say
“I don’t feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience’s ability to feel me.” —Erykah Badu.
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Richard E Grant: Cannibal
“Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!” —Richard E. Grant.
