Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Albert Einstein: Science and religion
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” —Albert Einstein.
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Ken Schwaber: Scrum
“Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out all your faults.” —Ken Schwaber.
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Nimrat Kaur: Love and romance
“I like the idea of not having a definition of love and romance. The greatest love stories have been about people who haven’t come together. More stories like that need to be explored.” —Nimrat Kaur.
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Douglas Hofstadter: Longer than you expect
”Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.” — Douglas Hofstadter, professor of cognitive science (b. 15 Feb 1945) .
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Liza Minnelli: Regrets and fear
“The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.” —Liza Minnelli.
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Ai Weiwei: Internet censorship
“When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.” —Ai Weiwei.
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Rupert Murdoch: Business interests
“It’s a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven’t got any other business interests.” —Rupert Murdoch.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Truth
“I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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Sharon Stone: Scary and claustrophobic
“At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn’t going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.” —Sharon Stone.
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Margaret Halsey: Crucial disadvantage
”The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o’clock.” — Margaret Halsey, novelist (13 Feb 1910-1997).
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PZ Myers: Rethink
“If you’ve got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs — rethinking the world isn’t an option.” — PZ Myers, biology professor (b. 9 Mar 1957) .
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Thornton Wilder: Love is the bridge
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Wilder, writer.
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J Sai Deepak: Being an Indian man
“If you are not chivalrous, you are called boorish or insensitive. If you are chivalrous, you can be accused of being a sexist. As an Indian man, you never know what aspect of your conduct is going to be viewed from the prism of gender.” – J. Sai Deepak, advocate in Delhi.
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Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: Music and musicians
“A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.” —-Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
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Michael Eisner: Succeeding and failing
“Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.” —Michael Eisner.
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Austin O’Malley: Memory
“Memory is a crazy old woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.” —Austin O’Malley.
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Shashi Tharoor: National priority
“We need to make improving air quality a national priority; create state and national action plans for clean air; set tough new targets for thermal power plant emissions, factory chimneys and automobile exhausts; and establish a proper air pollution monitoring system.’Business as usual’ just won’t do.” —Shashi Tharoor.
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Michelangelo: Greater danger
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” —Michelangelo.
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Carl Schurz: My country
“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.” — Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman, and reformer (1829-1906) .
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Karan Johar: Criticism and conjecture
” Criticism is healthy, as long as it’s unbiased. Conjecture is fun as long as it’s biased.” —Karan Johar.
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Joel Osteen: People respond
“People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.” —Joel Osteen.
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Michael Sandel: Liberalism and religion
“My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights – I believe rights are very important and need to be respected. The issue is whether it is possible to define and justify our rights without taking a stand on the moral and even sometimes religious convictions that citizens bring…
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Mary Karr: Memoir
“Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.” —Mary Karr.
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John Ruskin: Pretty small package
”When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.” —-John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (8 Feb 1819-1900) .
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Jug Suraiya: Buddy online
“According to the old saying, a friend in need is a friend indeed. An updated version would be: My buddy online, is the only pal of mine.” —Jug Suraiya, humorist.
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Alexander Graham Bell: Insatiable man
“Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.” —Alexander Graham Bell.
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Tom Wilson: Capable
“Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us.” —Tom Wilson,cartoonist.
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Dr. Seuss: Unless
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” —Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (2 Mar 1904-1991) .
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Anne Frank: As I write
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” —Anne Frank.
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Mikhail Gorbachev: Today and yesterday
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.” —Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Florence Luscomb: Walking down a high-walled lane
The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and…
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: Leopards,lions,jackals,hyenas
“Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti Gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a crederci il sale della terra.” English translation: “We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who’ll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we’ll…
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Yitzhak Rabin: Diplomatic peace
“A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.” —Yitzhak RabIn.
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Morihei Ueshiba: Training
“The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.” —Morihei Ueshiba.
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Paul Krugman: Predicting politics or social change
“I don’t think I’ve had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.”—Paul Krugman.
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Frederick Douglass: Limits of tyrants
”The limits of tyrants is prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” —Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, and orator (1817-1895) .
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Elizabeth Taylor: Pretty annoying virtues
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” —Elizabeth Taylor.
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Freeman Dyson: Exercising my skills
“I don’t particularly care [if the things I’m doing] are important or not. I’m not driven by a passion to dig out the deep secrets of nature. I’m much more interested just in exercising my skills as best I can and enjoying life.” -Freeman Dyson.
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Sanjay Manjrekar: The world that really stresses us out
“We, on a daily basis, are not stressed by the GDP of the country, but by our immediate surroundings. It starts with the little road outside our house that takes us into mainstream Mumbai, which is largely managed by the BMC. That’s the world that really stresses us out, day in and day out. Not…
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Victor Hugo: Labor, visible and invisible
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” —VIctor Hugo.
