Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Anonymous: Prozac to make it normal
“In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.” —Anonymous.
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Cornelius Platinga: Longing
“At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing–a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.” —Cornelius Platinga.
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Steph Davis: Absolute certainty in uncertainty
“Whatever might happen in life, whether I liked it or didn’t like it, I could know one thing for sure: it would change. There was absolute certainty in uncertainty, in some ways an enormous comfort.” —Steph Davis, Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog.
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Celine Dion: Surrounded by children
“When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.” —-Celine Dion.
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James Ingram: Remember the dream
“Remember The Dream You have a choice Your heart will know You gotta look back sometime To know where to go You have a voice Long as you live It’s never too small Whatever you got to give When your life is low (hold on) And you want to let go (be strong – hold…
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Jussie Smollett: Weight of just telling the truth
“I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It’s a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don’t have to be looking over your shoulder.” —Jussie Smollett.
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G K Chesterton: Acts and thought
“You cannot judge a man by his acts, you cannot even understand his acts, if you know nothing about his thought.” —G K Chesterton.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Arrogant
“If assholes don’t find you arrogant, you are doing something wrong.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Christian Bale: Embarrassing yourself endlessly
“But I learned that there’s a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there’s not much else that can really get to ya.” —Christian Bale.
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Adrienne Porter Felt: Software
“Software seems like something we should be able to reason about, yet the reality is that it’s often too complex. Since we don’t know how it works, we measure it and experiment on it as if we are trying to discover properties of the natural world.” —Adrienne Porter Felt.
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Joseph Sobran: Infanticide
“Infanticide is merely a natural extrapolation from Abortion. If it can’t be seriously wrong to kill a tiny bit of protoplasm, then it can’t be so very wrong to kill a somewhat bigger bit, and what real difference does it make whether it’s inside the womb or out?” —Joseph Sobran.
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Simon Sinek: Innovation and progress
“We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.” —Simon Sinek.
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Glenn Seaborg: Unity of knowledge
“There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge.” —Glenn Seaborg, chemist.
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Simon Sinek: Move for something better
“Never move to get away from something bad. Only move to get to something better. The difference will be knowing what to do when we arrive.” —Simon Sinek.
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Frank Tallis: Avoidance of pain
“At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of this pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain.” —-Frank Tallis.
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William Gibson: Addictions
“Addictions … started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn’t seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were … less intelligent than goldfish.” —William Gibson.
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Somerset Maugham: So much easier
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.” —Somerset Maugham.
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Moby: Addiction and obsessive behavior
“What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that’s toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.” —Moby.
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Carl Jung: Every form of addiction is bad
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” —Carl Jung.
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G K Chesterton: Unless they act
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” —G K Chesterton.
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Mark Ronson: Misquotes and wrong information
“I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.” —Mark Ronson.
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Ariel Winter: Don’t try to be funny
“With comedy, don’t try to be funny. That’s really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with other characters, and try to make it as real as possible. It will come out funny.” —Ariel Winter.
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Charlie Munger: Value investing
“All intelligent investing is value investing. You have to acquire more than you really pay for, and that’s a value judgment. But you can look for more than you’re paying for in a lot of different ways. You can use filters to sift the investment universe. And if you stick with stocks that can’t possibly…
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Warren Buffett: Wonderful business
“Generally speaking, I think if you’re sure enough about a business being wonderful, it’s more important to be certain about the business being a wonderful business than it is to be certain that the price is not 10 percent too high or 5 percent too high or something of the sort.” —Warren Buffett (1997).
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Warren Buffett: Great reluctance to sell
“We really have a great reluctance to sell businesses where we like both the business and the people. So I don’t think I’d count on seeing many sales. But if you ever attend a meeting here, and there are [holdings at] 60 or 70 times earnings, keep an eye on me…. You can really hold…
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Charlie Munger: Pretty high values
“If you’re right about the companies, you can hold them at pretty high values.” –Charlie Munger.
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Warren Buffett: Less risk
“There is less risk in owning three easy-to-identify, wonderful businesses than there is in owning 50 well-known, big businesses…. If you find three wonderful businesses in your life, you’ll get very rich.” —Warren Buffett.
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Pope Francis: Authentic communication
“It is not technology which determines whether or not communication is authentic, but rather the human heart and our capacity to use wisely the means at our disposal.” —Pope Francis.
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Pope Francis: Social networks
“Social networks can facilitate relationships and promote the good of society, but they can also lead to further polarisation and division between individuals and groups. The digital world is a public square, a meeting-place where we can either encourage or demean one another, engage in a meaningful discussion or unfair attacks.” —Pope Francis.
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Pope Francis: True compassion
“True compassion does not marginalise, humiliate or exclude, much less celebrate a patient passing away. You know well that would mean the triumph of selfishness, of that ‘throwaway culture’ that rejects and despises people who do not meet certain standards of health, beauty or usefulness.”
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G K Chesterton: Fairy tale
“The Fairy Tale accustoms a child for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there’s something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.” —G K Chesterton.
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Pico Iyer: Broken heart
“A broken heart, say the rabbis, is richer than a full one, because it still has room for the infinite.” —Pico Iyer.
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G K Chesterton: Courageous and denunciatory priest
“We have not enough people to abuse the abuses. We do not lack what corresponds to the corrupt monastery; we lack what corresponds to the courageous and denunciatory priest.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Scoundrels to curse
“It is not that we have not got enough scoundrels to curse; but that we have not got enough good men to curse them.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: The Devil
“The Devil is he who says he is God. That is, he is one who says that his functions are infinite and cannot be judged. Our present rulers are exactly marked by this secret omnipotence — this almost cosmic caprice.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Lust
“To love a thing without wishing to fight for it is not love at all; it is lust. It may be an airy, philosophical, and disinterested lust; it may be, so to speak, a virgin lust; but it is lust, because it is wholly self-indulgent and invites no attack.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Feminism and chivalry
“Feminism is against chivalry; but chivalry will always be rather in favor of feminism.” —G K Chesterton.
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Romain Rolland: Be reverent
Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day. —Romain Rolland.
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Simon Sinek: Dreams
‘Dr. King gave the “I have a dream” speech, not the “I have a plan” speech. It’s our dreams that change the course of history.’ —Simon Sinek.
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Germaine Greer: Libraries
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.” —Germaine Greer.
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Lady Gaga: Promoting insecurity
“I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.” —Lady Gaga.
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Dame Cicely Saunders: Because you are you
“You matter because you are you. You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.” —Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of Hospice.
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Richard Fenigsen: Fundamental question
“The fundamental question about euthanasia: Whether it is a libertarian movement for human freedom and the right of choice, or an aggressive drive to exterminate the weak, the old, and the different, this question can now be answered. It is both.” —Richard Fenigsen, Dutch cardiologist.
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Pete Du Pont: Dreadful consequences
“From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.” —Pete Du Pont.
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Voltaire: Appreciation
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” —Voltaire.
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Richard Paul Evans: Suffocate the present
“Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It’s like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.” —Richard Paul Evans.
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Jack Kevorkian: Certain cases
“Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.” —Jack Kevorkian.
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Kenneth Stevens: Reversal of proper role
“Assisted suicide is a reversal of the proper role of a doctor as a healer, comforter and consoler to an improper role of the physician causing a patient’s death.” —Kenneth Stevens.
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Andrew Coyne: No argument even against death
“A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.” —Andrew Coyne.
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Michael Bassey Johnson: Unwanted people
“Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.” —Michael Bassey Johnson.
