Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Ronald Graham: You’ve always got the night
“Well, as you know, there are 24 hrs in every day. And if that’s not enough, you’ve always got the night.”— Ronald Graham.
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Rob Reiner: Feelings are always the same
“You – I don’t think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That’s something that everybody remembers, and it doesn’t matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.” —Rob Reiner.
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Stephen King: Real life endings
“And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.” —Stephen King.
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Phil Ochs: True protest is beauty
“You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty.” —Phil Ochs.
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Ogden Nash: Middle age
“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.”—Ogden Nash.
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Steve Biko: Mind of the oppressed
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” —Steve Biko.
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Steve Haflich: Hammer thumb
“When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.” —Steve Haflich.
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Chelsea Manning: Patriotism
“Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power.” —Chelsea Manning.
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Doug Larson: Nostalgia
“Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.” — Doug Larson.
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E F L Woodford: Everything
“Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.” —E. F. L. Woodford.
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Muhammad Ali: Champions
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” — Muhammad Ali.
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Oscar Wilde: Other people
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”— Oscar Wilde.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Violence and falsehood
“Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as…
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Adam Levine: I hate flying
“I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.”— Adam Levine.
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Sophie Kinsella: Perspective
“If you want something you can’t afford, think what else that money could buy: a week’s groceries, a month’s rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.” —Sophie Kinsella.
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Emily Dickinson: Tell it slant
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—- / … The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.” —Emily Dickinson
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Theodore Roosevelt: Work worth doing
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”— Theodore Roosevelt.
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Thich Nhat Hanh: Walk on earth
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.”— Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Warren Buffett: Wrong decisions
“Wrong decisions are part of life. Being able to make them work anyway is one of the abilities of those who are successful.” —Warren Buffett.
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David Foster Wallace: Learning how to think
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.” —David Foster Wallace.
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Clara Hughes: Medals are things I send to my mom
“In my heart it is clear to me why I go to the line time and again. I can assure you it’s not a medal hanging around my neck I’m after. Medals are things I send to my mom in Winnipeg, which she in turn shares with friends and family. They are not what provide…
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W Somerset Maugham: People want praise
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.” —W Somerset Maugham.
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Mary Kay Ash: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT
“Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine him or her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT! I respond to this sign immediately, and it works wonders.” —Mary Kay Ash.
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Ann Patchett: Disturb the world around you
“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.” —Ann Patchett.
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Harvey Finkelstein: Energy vampires and energy catalysts
“I can’t be everything to everyone. I kind of made peace with it years ago—that at this particular phase of my life, this is what I need and this is what I want. It’s also the reason why I’m very particular about who I spend my time with because I do believe that there are…
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Steve Jobs: Inner voice
“Don’t let the opinions of other people’s voice drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”— Steve Jobs.
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Frank Capra: Drama
“I made mistakes…I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”— Frank Capra.
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Anuradha Roy: Good fiction
“I think in good fiction, it’s possible to fit a universe into a teacup.” —Anuradha Roy.
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Dr. Julie Gurner: All in
“A mindset that separates the top one percent from ‘most people’ is seeing threats as personal challenges. Most people see a threat and become more careful. Top players see those same things as personal challenges that they will dominate. They run into them head on. All in.”— Dr. Julie Gurner.
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Bruce Lee: Use only that which works
“Use only that which works and take it from any place you can find it.” —Bruce Lee.
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Eugene Ionesco: Ideologies separate us
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” —Eugene Ionesco.
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Leo Tolstoy: Many kinds of love
“I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.
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Joseph Wood Krutch: Bloody mass of fur or feathers
“How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?” —Joseph Wood Krutch.
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Dharmendra: Make me a dictator
“Make me a dictator for five years and I would remove all the dirt from the Indian politics and make it clean.” —Dharmendra.
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Lewis Mumford: Man of courage
“A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.” —Lewis Mumford.
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Arundhati Roy: Colored cloth
“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.” —Arundhati Roy.
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Charles Kingsley: Chief requirements of life
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” —Charles Kingsley.
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Burt Rutan: Testing leads to failure
“Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.” ― Burt Rutan.
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Ken Griffin: Extra mile
“Often it’s the person who goes the extra mile who comes to the right conclusion. That’s grit, it’s perseverance, it’s determination. It’s making the effort. One of the things we emphasize is what do you need to do, what extra steps do you need to take to get to the right conclusion faster than those…
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Vincent Van Gogh: Sight of the stars
“I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” —Vincent Van Gogh.
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Norman Thomas: Symbolic gesture
“If you want a symbolic gesture, don’t burn the flag, wash it.” —Norman Thomas.
