Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Victor Hugo: With her eyes
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.” —Victor Hugo.
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Norman Mailer: More idleness and abuse
“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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Clinton Kelly: Comparisons
“Every time you set up a comparison between yourself and someone else, you lose, no one wins.” —Clinton Kelly.
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Andrena Sawyer: Social media
” The problem with social media is that it’s great for your ego, but terrible for your sanity.” —Andrena Sawyer.
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Lailah Gifty Akita: Comparing yourself to others
“Why compare yourself to others? You never know what people have endured to get where they are.” —Lailah Gifty Akita.
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Shobhaa De: Something wonderful
“Something wonderful is taking place in our movies. And the real stars are towns like Patna, Kanpur, Amritsar, and Lucknow. If these cities are stealing the show from the glam-sham of our megapolis with its gleaming, glittering skylines, I’d say actors from the same milieu will also take the pants off Bollywood brats from aamchi…
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Virginia Woolf: Two edges of beauty
“The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” —Virginia Woolf.
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Jerry Pinto: Writing
“It’s what you start writing and find you cannot write that defines you almost as much as what you have done. It’s what you fail at that makes you a writer because now you know what you cannot do. This is much more useful than knowing what you can do.” —Jerry Pinto.
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Steve Jobs: Dent in the universe
“We’re here to put a dent in the universe.” —Steve Jobs, entrepreneur and inventor (24 Feb 1955-2011) .
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Steve Jobs: Design
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” —Steve Jobs.
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Arthur Schopenhauer: Inward wealth
“Nothing is so good a protection against such misery as inward wealth, the wealth of the mind, because the greater it grows, the less room it leaves for boredom. The inexhaustible activity of thought!” —Arthur Schopenhauer (The Wisdom of Life).
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Samuel Pepys: Something in her gizzard
“I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.” —Samuel Pepys.
