Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Insults
“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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C S Lewis: Desire for my true country
“I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.” —C…
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George Horace Lorimer: Worrying
“Worrying is the one game in which if you guess right, you don’t get any satisfaction out of your smartness.” —George Horace Lorimer.
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C S Lewis: Strategic point
“The smallest good act today is the strategic point from which, months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.” —C S Lewis.
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Philip Babcock Gove: Inchoate heterogeneous conglomerate
“It may be observed that the English language is not a system of logic, that its vocabulary has not developed in correlation with generations of straight thinkers, that we cannot impose upon it something preconceived as an ideal of scientific method and expect to come out with anything more systematic and more clarifying than what…
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Tony Deden: Like-mindedness
“Earlier, I talked to you about the idea of like-mindedness, for example. And so I’m serious about this in a sense that I want to own a participation—I don’t call it a stock or equity—I want to own a business participation in a business that is run by owners whose motivation is the same as…
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Tony Deden: Idea of exclusion
“The first principle I operate from is the idea of exclusion. I exclude whole swaths of things from my universe of things. I think that, in the whole world, there are probably 150, 200 listed companies that I would even consider owning a piece of. It’s a completely different way of looking at the world….…
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Tony Deden: Rules of the game
“When the rules of the game change, the process with which you make decisions, the process with which you act, the value of information, the value of inputs, must change with it.” —Tony Deden.
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Isabelle Adjani: Success
“One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.” —Isabelle Adjani.
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Indira Gandhi: Learn to be still
“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.” —Indira Gandhi.
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Simon Sinek: Emotions
“Emotions are like vomit. You can only hold it in for so long before it all just comes out … and by that time it’s pretty messy.” —Simon Sinek.
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Virginia Satir: Greatest gift
“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.” —Virginia Satir, psychotherapist and author (26 Jun 1916-1988).
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C S Lewis: Courage
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” —C S Lewis.
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Walt Whitman: Providence
“I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.” —Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892).
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Simon Sinek: Goal
“The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Orwell: Nationalist
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” —George Orwell, writer (25 Jun 1903-1950).
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Hal Clement: Speculation, superstition and science
“Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you’ve only founded a superstition. If you test it, you’ve started a science.” —Hal Clement, science fiction author (30 May 1922-2003).
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Henry Ward Beecher: Never excuse yourself
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” —Henry Ward Beecher.
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James Baldwin: No limitations
“If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.” —James Baldwin.
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C S Lewis: Made for another world
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” —C S Lewis.
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George Bernard Shaw: Old measurements
“The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Giambattista Vico: Common sense
“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.” —Giambattista Vico.
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Norman Mailer: Welfare
“To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of…
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Being insincere
“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” —Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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C S Lewis: Society of possible gods and goddesses
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship…You have never talked to a mere mortal.” —C…
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Elisabeth Elliott: Rupture
“The self, small and hard and resisting as a nut, will have to be ruptured. My own purposes and desires and hopes will have to at times be exploded. The rupture of the self is death, but out of death comes life. The acorn must rupture if an oak tree is to grow.” —Elisabeth Elliott.
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Billy Wilder: Critical genius
“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark – that is critical genius.” —Billy Wilder.
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C S Lewis: Redeemed humanity
“For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity.” —C S Lewis.
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W H Auden: Discipline passion, discipline time
“A modern stoic knows that the surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.” —W H Auden.
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Francoise Sagan: Writing
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.” —Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (21 Jun 1935-2004).
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Charlie Munger: Best business getter
“When I was a lawyer, I used to say, ‘The best business getter any lawyer has is the work that’s already on his desk.’…it’s a very old-fashioned idea. You just do well with what you already have and more of the same comes in.” —-Charlie Munger.
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Esther Perel: Self-esteem
“Self-esteem is the ability to see yourself as a flawed individual and still hold yourself in high regard.” —Esther Perel.
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Juliette Lewis: Fame
“Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can’t just say, ‘hi’. You say hi and people whisper’ man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.” —Juliette Lewis.
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Lloyd Alexander: Story
“Story, finally, is humanity’s autobiography.” —Lloyd Alexander, novelist (30 Jan 1924-2007).
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David Oglivy: Throw away the pawns
“In your day-to-day negotiations with clients and colleagues fight for the kings and queens and bishops but throw away the pawns. A habit of graceful surrender on trivial issues will make you difficult to resist on those rare occasions when you must stand and fight on a major issue.” —David Ogilvy.
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G K Chesterton: Only in the air
“It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say, with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air.” —G K Chesterton.
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Erich Fromm: Love
“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” — Erich Fromm.
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C S Lewis: Miracles
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” —C S Lewis.
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Seneca: How you bear it
“It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.” —Seneca (“Of Providence”).
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Simon Sinek: Innovation
“Innovation is not born from the dream. Innovation is born from the struggle.” —Simon Sinek.
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey: Moral test of government
“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life — the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” —Hubert Horatio Humphrey, US Vice President (27 May…
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C S Lewis: Afflictions
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don’t agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ.” —C S Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Infallible
“Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.” —Simon Sinek.
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Blaise Pascal: Four friends
“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.” —Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662).
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Blaise Pascal: Mediocrity
“Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.” —Blaise Pascal.
