Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Martin Niemoller: I did not speak out
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a…
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Abigail Adams: Remember
“Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.” –Abigail Adams.
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Mosul Eye: Fear and dreams
“I will not write about fear tonight. I will write about my dreams that might not happen, maybe not in my lifetime, because they remain dreams and imaginations , and I very well know that the greatest inventions were born from imaginations.” —Part of a blog post dated November 2, 2016 from mosuleye.wordpress.com.
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Ranbir Kapoor: Acting
“People live under the misconception that if a person maintains their physique, learns horse-riding or dancing, they automatically turn into an actor. I believe correct acting is when a person knows how some things in the world work and incorporates that knowledge into their experiences. As a human being, I believe it’s my job to…
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Zig Ziglar: Everything in life
”You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” —Zig Ziglar.
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Tahereh Mafi: Revenge
“I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart and revenge I think has never looked so sweet.” —Tahereh Mafi.
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Bryan Adams: Great music
”If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.” —Bryan Adams.
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Guy Fawkes: Fifth of November
Remember , remember the fifth of November , Gunpowder, treason and plot.I see no reason why gunpowder, treasonShould ever be forgot… —Guy Fawkes.
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Anthony Burgess: Goodness
“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.” —Anthony Burgess.
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St. Charles Borromeo: Preach by the way you live
”Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.” —St. Charles Borromeo.
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Matthew McConaughey: Dissecting failure
”We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.” —Matthew McConaughey.
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Benjamin Franklin: Passion and reason
“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Michael Dukakis: Good general
”Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn’t with me as against me.” —Michael Dukakis.
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Thomas A Kempis: Be not angry
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” —Thomas A Kempis.
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Kwon Oh-Hyun: Crisis
“The latest crisis made us look back at ourselves and think maybe we have grown complacent, and it served as momentum for a new start. ” —Kwon Oh-Hyun, Samsung Electronics Co-CEO.
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Shah Rukh Khan: Cinema in India
”Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.” —Shah Rukh Khan.
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Athiya Shetty: Tinder atheist
“You can say I am a Tinder atheist. I am not too sure how exactly it works. How can you decide if you want to meet a person just by looking at a picture , which most of the time turns out to be someone else’s! I would delete the app. ” —Athiya Shetty.
