Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Priyanka Yoshikawa: Germ
“We’ve been struggling and it hurts. When I came back to Japan, everyone thought I was a germ.” —Priyanka Yoshikawa.
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Amitabh Bachchan: Measure of character
“Don’t listen to those who tell you ‘how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go’. Don’t let anyone believe that the length of your skirt is a measure of your character.” —Amitabh Bachchan, in an open letter to his granddaughters, Navya Naveli and Aaradhya.
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Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury: Moral policing
“I loathe moral policing. Who am I to decide on your behalf what clothes you should wear and who you should hang out with? It is my problem if I react to it and my upbringing needs to be in check.” —Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury.
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Buddha: Holding on to anger
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” —Buddha.
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Hillary Clinton: Diplomacy
“There’s noting fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Tommy Smothers: Censorship
“The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” —Tommy Smothers.
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Trisha Gupta: Being a good husband
“Because being a good husband, as every woman who has beaten her head against her partner’s incomprehension knows, can’t just mean not being a ‘bad’ one. It just isn’t about not beating up your wife, not cheating on her, or not endangering your children’s lives. A healthy, happy, loving relationship needs positive words and actions…
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Lailah Gifty Akita: Preparing
“You can prepare for any challenge, if you daily nurture your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.” —Lailah Gifty Akita.
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Nina Leavins: Self care and medical systems
“If we all started using the Self Care System, there would hardly be need for the Medical System.” —Nina Leavins.
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Scott Hastie: Repairing cracks
“We too can repair our cracks with gold and glow again. Crazed by life, more beautiful than ever before.” —Scott Hastie.
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Jules Renard: Love, an hourglass
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” —Jules Renard.
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Mother Teresa: Spread love
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” —Mother Teresa.
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Mother Teresa: Judging and loving
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” —Mother Teresa.
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Mother Teresa: No great things
“There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.” —Mother Teresa.
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Winston Churchill: Crocodile
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” —Winston Churchill.
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Archbishop Fulton J Sheen: Ten times as much
“Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord himself gave ten times as much of his life to her as he gave to his apostles.” —Fulton J Sheen.
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Freddie Mercury: Twenty years
“What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?” —Freddie Mercury.
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Mother Teresa: Peace
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” —Mother Teresa.
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Clarence Darrow: True patriotism
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.” —Clarence Darrow.
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Sam Balsara: Safe advertising
“One of the mistakes advertisers still make is to create safe advertising and safe advertising never works. By definition, safe advertising will not work and you will have to spend at least three times more to make it work. So, safe advertising, which unfortunately a lot of brands for whatever compulsion get tempted to do,…
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Mother Teresa: Kind words
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” —Mother Teresa.
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Freddie Mercury: Melodies superior to lyrics
“I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.” —Freddie Mercury.
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Mother Teresa: Small things
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” —Mother Teresa.
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Lal Ded: Mystery
“Forever we come, forever we go; Forever, day and night, we are on the move. Whence we come, thither we go, Forever in the circle of birth and death, From nothingness to nothingness. But sure, a mystery here abides, Something is there for us to know. ” —Lal Ded.
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Freddie Mercury: Money
“Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!” —Freddie Mercury.
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Katrina Kaif: Generalising women
“If one has to generalise us by nature, we, the women, are more inclined towards family. And toward attachment and protection. Most women are like that.” —Katrina Kaif.
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Mother Teresa: Feed just one
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” —Mother Teresa.
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Osho: Political power
“Psychologists are aware of the fact that people who are suffering from some kind of inferiority complex are the people likely to be attracted towards politics, because politics can give them power.” —Osho.
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Freddie Mercury: Opera with a rock theme
“We’re a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It’s unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.” —Freddie Mercury
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Ravichandran Ashwin: 150% madness
“I am 100 per cent method, 80 per cent skill and 150 per cent madness.” —Ravichandran Ashwin.
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Woody Allen: Emotionally disturbed teachers
“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.” —Woody Allen.
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Dan Rather: Dreamy teacher
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.” —Dan Rather.
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Howard Zinn: War on terrorism
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? -Howard Zinn, historian, playwright, and social activist (24 Aug 1922-2010) .
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Alexander the Great: Indebted
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” —Alexander the Great.
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Carl Jung: Warm teaching
“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.” — Carl Jung.
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Dr. Seuss: Alone
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. ” —Dr. Seuss.
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Mother Teresa: Paradox
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.” —Mother Teresa.
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Mother Teresa: Little pencil
“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.” —Mother Teresa.
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Sigmund Freud: Opposition
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. —Sigmund Freud.
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John Neal: Opposition, a great help
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. -John Neal, author and critic (25 Aug 1793-1876).
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Abraham Lincoln: Slavery
“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature — opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.” —Abraham Lincoln.
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Gene Wilder: Happily ever after
“But Charlie, don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted… He lived happily ever after.” —Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
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Shefalee Vasudev: Liberation
“Liberation is a slow, painful, acidic process. You can take off a burkini and continue to wear a mask. Or take off the mask and remain clothed in fear. Nudity is a state of the body, but nakedness is a state of mind. We need to figure out for ourselves whether we want to bare…
