Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Shay Mitchell: Bully who’s insecure
“I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It’s the bully who’s insecure.” —Shay Mitchell.
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Abraham Lincoln: Evil somebody
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.” —Abraham Lincoln.
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Jessie J: Because of how they are
“They’re not bullying you because of you,they’re bullying you because of how they are.” —Jessie J.
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Zack W Van: Rare occurrence
“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It’s a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.” —Zack W. Van.
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Unknown: Sign of weakness
“Bullying is cruel so don’t act like a fool. Meanness is a sign of weakness.” —Unknown.
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Mary Elizabeth William: Considerable strength and character
“The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person.” —Mary Elizabeth William.
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Ogden Nash: Paid more
“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.” —-Ogden Nash.
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Charlie Munger: Simple, old-fashioned discipline
“We have this simple, old-fashioned discipline, which Warren likens to Ted Williams waiting for a fat pitch. I don’t know about Warren, but if you said to me, ‘Charlie, you can go into the business of managing money the way other people do, where you’re measured against indexes and you got consultants choosing consultants that…
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Warren Buffett: Intrinsic value
“Intrinsic value is terribly important and very fuzzy, and we do our best to work…in the kind of businesses where we think that…our predictions are of a fairly highly probable nature. And that leaves out all kinds of companies.” —Warren Buffett.
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Joseph Sobran: Obvious lie
‘Though abortion — including the killing of viable infants at the verge of birth — is now a sacrament of the Democratic Party, nobody admits to being “pro-abortion”; they are “pro-choice.” This is an obvious lie. The right to choose anything presupposes the right to live.’ —Joseph Sobran.
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C S Lewis: Good rule
“It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” — C.S. Lewis.
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Justin Timberlake: Get over it
“Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.” —Justin Timberlake.
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Nancy Reagan: What is there to see?
“Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that’s supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It’s what you don’t see that’s attractive.” —Nancy Reagan.
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Rita Mae Brown: Made for losers
“Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful – It’s made for the losers.” —Rita Mae Brown.
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Depraves and corrupts
“How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.” —Malcolm Muggeridge.
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Seneca: Without an opponent
“I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.” —Seneca.
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G K Chesterton: Rule rather than represent
“This is the age of minorities; of groups that rule rather than represent.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Thrives on persecution
“Christianity is fighting for its existence, but it is always fighting for its existence. It thrives on persecution.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Transparency
“Transparency doesn’t mean sharing every detail. Transparency means always providing the context for our decisions.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Cash is the default option
“We’re not really ever positioning ourselves. We’re simply trying to do the smartest thing we can every day when we come to the office. And if there’s nothing smart to do, cash is the default option.” –Warren Buffett.
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Gary Thomas: Wives less beautiful
“We can’t fill up our eyes with our wives if our eyes have been previously filled with someone else. One of the many dangers of porn is that it neurologically trains us to find our wives less beautiful.” —Gary Thomas.
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Gary Thomas: Pornography
“Pornography is based on and fed by always needing to see something new. It works neurologically to create an obsessive demand for more of something you’ve never seen before. The promise of something new is what gets you excited and interested, which means, by definition, that you can never be fully satisfied. That’s the opposite…
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Dr. Mary Anne Layden: Equal opportunity toxin
“Pornography, by its very nature, is an equal opportunity toxin. It damages the viewer, the performer, and the spouses and the children of the viewers and the performers. It is toxic mis-education about sex and relationships. It is more toxic the more you consume.” —Dr. Mary Anne Layden.
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G K Chesterton: Managed without law or government
“The two or three most important things in the world have always been managed without law or government; because they have been managed by women. Can anyone tell me two things more vital than: what man shall marry what woman, and what shall be the first things taught to a child?” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Deliberate erotic stimulants
“There is such a thing as a system of deliberate erotic stimulants. It is called pornography. This is not a thing to be argued about with one’s intellect, but to be stamped on with one’s heel.” —G K Chesterton.
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Jon Kabat-Zinn: Not realizing
“All the suffering, stress and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.” —Jon Kabat-Zinn.
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Mark Twain: Habit
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” —Mark Twain.
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Anonymous: Addiction doesn’t kill the addict
“Addiction doesn’t kill the addict. It kills the family, kids and people who tried to help!” —Anonymous.
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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.
