Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Suhel Seth: Happiness
”Happiness is neither eternal nor does it embrace all people in the same way. Happiness is not only about what you feel but equally about how you interpret that feeling. “ —Suhel Seth.
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Sunil Bharti Mittal: Beg,borrow, steal
”Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure” —-Sunil Bharti Mittal #equalgrowth http://wef.ch/62173 #wef15
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Bo Derek: Impersonal really
”Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing – it’s something so impersonal really.” —Bo Derek.
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Norman Douglas: Advertisements and ideals
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.” —Norman Douglas.
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Leonard Cohen: What is a saint?
”What is a saint? A saint is someone who had achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not…
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Mary Kay Ash: Bumblebee
”Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” —Mary Kay Ash.
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Rose George: Toilet rules
”Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?” —Rose George.
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Indira Gandhi: My father and I
”My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.” —Indira Gandhi.
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Paulo Coelho: Opinions
“Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.” —Paulho Coelho.
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Margaret Atwood: Men and women
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” —Margaret Atwood.
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Danny DeVito: Two dilemmas
”There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go?” —Danny DeVito
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Anyone
“Anyone can carry his burden, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.” —Robert Louis Stevenson.
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John F Kennedy: Tolerance
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. John F. Kennedy #InternationalDayForTolerance
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Anjuly Mathai: Just being
“Most of us are striving to be someone who we know we are not. But when you surrender your individuality to an entity much larger than yourself, you cease to strive. Instead, you just are.” —Anjuly Mathai.
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William Pitt the Elder: Necessity
”Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” —William Pitt the Elder.
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Roberto Diaz: Achilles heel
”Work to find your Achilles heel – the specific aspect of the music that needs problem solving” – Roberto Diaz, star violinist.
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Hilary Clinton: Raising doubts
“There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful (but) our analysis is that (FBI director James) Corney’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.” —Hilary Clinton.
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Narendra Modi: 50 days
“Please bear with me for 50 days and I promise I will give you the Hindustan that you have always wanted.” —Narendra Modi.
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Nicole Ari Parker: Food, our medicine
We’re all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonald’s. We can’t make it a way of life – we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes,…
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Greatest risk of all
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.—Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Prince Charles: Neither remote nor familiar
“Be neither too remote nor too familiar.” —Prince Charles.
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Khalil Gibran: Children
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. Khalil Gibran
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St. Augustine: Yourself
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Dr. Aseem Malhotra: Doctor’s duty
“A doctor’s duty goes beyond individual patients, to the whole population.” —Dr. Aseem Malhotra.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Loving life
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.” —Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Leonard Cohen: Act the way you’d like to be
”Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.” —Leonard Cohen.
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Mandy Moore: Pneumonia
Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. Mandy Moore #WorldPneumoniaDay
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Nadia Comaneci: Challenges and fear
”I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.” —Nadia Comaneci.
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Douglas MacArthur: Peace loving soldier
”The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” —Douglas MacArthur.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Perfection
With everything perfect, we do not ask how it came to be.” — Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Amitabh Kant: Growth
“India is growing at 7% plus. India needs to grow at 9-10% for the next three decades. Unless we grow at 9-10% for the next three decades, it will be difficult to lift vast population out of poverty.” —Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog.
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George R R Martin: Winter
“Winter is coming. I told you so.” —George R R Martin, author of ‘Game of Thrones’ , on Donald Trump’s victory in the US election.
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Leonardo di Caprio: Fun and consequences
“I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can’t now.” —Leonardo di Caprio.
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Martin Luther: God’s hands
“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.” —Martin Luther.
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Elizabeth Edwards: Sails
“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” —Elizabeth Edwards.
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Barack Obama: Better odds
“You have bet on me. I was always grateful for that. I always had the better odds, because I always got to bet on you. ” —Barack Obama.
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Gregory Kroitzsh: Real historic moment
“Everyone’s talking about Trump and how he could be basically the next fascist dictator for America. But, what’s getting lost here is a real historic moment where we are going to have the first female President. She’s going to be the most powerful person in the world. A woman is going to be the most…
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Margaret Mitchell: Reputation
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
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Manav Kaul: Inward
“An artist’s journey is always inward. My writing surprises me the most; I don’t know where it comes from, when it will come even.” —Manav Kaul.
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Marie Curie: Dreamers
Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the…
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Kamal Hassan: 21st century man
“I am a 21st century man. I don’t believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.” —Kamal Hassan.
