Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Vaclav Havel: Things that make sense
“I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time–in short, things that make sense.” —Vaclav Havel, Open Letters.
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Abraham Lincoln: One-third and two-thirds
“When I’m getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say—and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.” —Abraham Lincoln.
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Arthur Schopenhauer: Vehemence springs from the will
“Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.” —Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Marianne Williamson: Child of God
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of…
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Hazel Henderson: Don’t wait for anyone
“Don’t wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself…and put one foot in front of the other.” —Hazel Henderson.
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Henry David Thoreau: Reality
“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe…till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is…” —Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
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Vaclav Havel: Orientation map
“Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will…seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself–in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what…
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Marlon Williams: Trying to refine a song
“You could go on forever trying to refine a song.” —Marlon Williams.
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Karl Marx: Tragedy and farce
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” —Karl Marx.
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Don Cheadle: No nuance
“So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we’re either the noble savage or we’re completely a savage, and there’s no nuance.” —Don Cheadle.
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Amy Locane: Therapeutic
“Running is very spiritual for me. It is therapeutic; it clears my mind and helps me to focus.” —Amy Locane.
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Lee Radziwill: Regrets
“Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven’t are either liars… or narcissists.” —Lee Radziwill.
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Shawn Mendes: What you don’t say
“I think it’s not about what you say; it’s about what you don’t say.” —Shawn Mendes.
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Danielle Orner: Dangerous profession
“Writing is a dangerous profession. There is no telling what hole you may rip in society’s carefully woven master narrative.” —Danielle Orner.
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Olivia Newton-John: Family, nature and health
“Family, nature and health all go together.” —Olivia Newton-John.
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C S Lewis: Childish books
“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Extraordinary person
“A man who attacks the Christian religion in the modern world is not an unheard-of or extraordinary person. The extraordinary person is the person who defends the Christian religion.” —G K Chesterton.
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Adlai Stevenson: Not a free man
“A hungry man is not a free man.” —Adlai Stevenson, statesman (5 Feb 1900-1965.
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Ozzy Osbourne: Secret intelligence
“They say military have the so-called ‘secret intelligence’ – this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I’ve never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.” —Ozzy Osbourne.
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Marcus Aurelius: The rest doesn’t matter
“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying…or busy with other assignments.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Will & Ariel Durrant: Challenge
“If we put the problem further back, and ask what determines whether a challenge will or will not be met, the answer is that this depends upon the presence or absence of initiative and of creative individuals with clarity of mind and energy of will (which is almost a definition of genius), capable of effective…
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C S Lewis: Choice of every lost soul
“The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words ” Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.’” —C S Lewis, The Great Divorce.
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Andrea Levy: Choose with care
“There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they’d been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as…
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Felicity Jones: Fashion show
“A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there’s all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there’s 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.” —Felicity Jones.
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Kenny G: Indian music
“Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that’s the way I write music.” —Kenny G.
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William Weld: Not good
“It’s not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.” —William Weld.
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Ellen Page: Hypocrisy in people’s lives
“And I think it’s really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people’s lives.” —Ellen Page.
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Ann Coulter: Much better country
“It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 – except Goldwater in ’64 – the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.” —Ann Coulter.
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Orlando Bloom: No control over the finished product
“As an actor, you can’t think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you’re in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.”…
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Tommy Lee: Funny thing about girls
“A funny thing about girls, though, is that the more you do wrong, the more they like you.” —Tommy Lee, The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band.
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Muhammad Ali: Wasted
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” -Muhammad Ali.
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John Dingell: Significant loss of clout
“I have had a significant loss of clout. I will have to make up for it with hard work and with extra effort.” —John Dingell, longest-serving congressperson in American history.
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Simon Sinek: Pursuit
“Pursue the thing inside of us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside of us and others will compete with us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jeremy Bentham: Can they suffer?
“The question is not Can they reason?, nor Can they talk?, but Can they suffer?” —Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (15 Feb 1748-1832).
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Garry Wills: All power is emergency power
“The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power.” —Garry Wills, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State.
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Ellen Bass: Running from yourself
“Survivors are often good at both resolving and generating crisis. While this capacity to handle crisis can make you a good emergency room worker or ambulance driver, it can also be a way for you to keep yourself from feeling. If you are addicted to intensity and drama…you may be running from yourself.” —Ellen Bass,…
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Lemony Snickett: In an emergency
“In an emergency, one often learns that one’s companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening.” —Lemony Snicket, Horseradish.
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G K Chesterton: Love creates beauty
“Beauty and the Beast deals with a very deep idea: that love creates beauty.” —G K Chesterton.
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Will Rogers: Right track
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” -Will Rogers.
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Coomi Kapoor: Rules of the game
“The rules of the game are never changed till after the game is over.” —Coomi Kapoor, The Emergency: A Personal History.
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Coomi Kapoor: Cautiously
“The National Herald, founded by Jawaharlal Nehru, supported the Emergency throughout, and cautiously removed the quote ‘Freedom is in peril, defend it with all your might’ from its masthead.” —Coomi Kapoor, The Emergency: A Personal History.
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Rachel Johnson: At the slightest slackening
“It’s very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.” —Rachel Johnson.
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Ken Jeong: All the tools in the world
“You can have all the tools in the world but if you don’t genuinely believe in yourself, it’s useless.” —Ken Jeong.
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John Donne: Any man’s death diminishes me
“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.” —John Donne.
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G K Chesterton: Free Lover
“It is perfectly obvious that the Free Lover is simply a person attempting the impossible idea of having a series of honeymoons and no marriage. He is building a long arcade consisting entirely of gates; with no house at the end of them.” —G K Chesterton.
