Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Subhalakshmi Khan: Marriage
“If your journey is too smooth then it’s no fun. Marriage brings its own ups and downs. Enjoy it. You’ve got to be resilient. There’s a lot of give and take. You have to nurture your marriage and work on it to make it last forever.” —Subhalakshmi Khan, dance exponent.
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Bertrand Russell: Love and duty
“Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him or her.” —Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals.
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Henry Clay: Compatible with liberty
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. -Henry Clay, statesman and orator (12 Apr 1777-1852)
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Thomas Jefferson: Artificial aristocracy
There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect, and author (13 Apr 1743-1826)
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Arnold J. Toynbee: Supreme accomplishment
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. -Arnold J. Toynbee, historian (14 Apr 1889-1975)
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Thomas Szasz: Conscious learning
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (15 Apr 1920-2012)
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Clarence Darrow: Other man’s freedom
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free. -Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (18 Apr 1857-1938)
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Pietro Aretino: Because I love you
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -Pietro Aretino, satirist and dramatist (20 Apr 1492-1556)
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Anushka Sharma: Empowerment
“Choosing motherhood over career is empowering. Choosing your career over motherhood is empowering. The freedom to choose is empowering.” —Anushka Sharma.
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Carl Jung: Chemical reaction
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” —Carl Jung.
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Candace Bushnell: Fire
“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.” —Candace Bushnell.
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Donald Miller: Perfection
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” —Donald Miller.
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Josh Billings: Scarce truth
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. -Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (21 Apr 1818-1885)
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Jan de Hartog: Error of the young
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed. -Jan de Hartog, playwright and novelist (22 Apr 1914-2002)
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Nimrat Kaur: Comfort zone
“There’s no comfort zone—that I feel is the most important lesson and skill to have in today’s world. It shapes you and you are not shy of change. It’s a constant reminder that your home, people around you, and your life will keep changing. Nothing will remain the same.” —Nimrat Kaur.
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Nimrat Kaur: Love needs patience
“Love needs patience. One requires to be a forgiving person. It’s easy to give up on people. We are in the habit of giving up on anything that needs hard work. We need to hold on to love and make it work for a lifetime.” —Nimrat Kaur.
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William Shakespeare: Words
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” —William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616).
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John Updike: Rain
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth;without rain, there would be no life.” —John Updike.
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Kate Winslet: English rain
“One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it’s raining, and the sky is dark;I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.” —Kate Winslet.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Some rain must fall
“Into each life, some rain must fall.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Manal al-Sharif: Single drop
The rain begins with a single drop. -Manal al-Sharif, human rights activist (b. 25 Apr 1979)
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Theodore Roethke: Madness
What’s madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? -Theodore Roethke, poet (25 May 1908-1963) .
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Edmond de Goncourt: Historians and novelists
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. -Edmond de Goncourt, writer, critic, and publisher (26 May 1822-1896)
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Mark Twain: Patriotism
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” —Mark Twain.
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Hubert Humphrey: 172 years late
There are those who say to you — we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. -Hubert Humphrey, US Vice President (27 May 1911-1978)
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Walt Whitman: Leaf of grass
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. -Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892)
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Anthony Burgess: Temporarily inactive
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motorshow — full of potential, but temporarily inactive. -Anthony Burgess, author (1917-1993).
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Lawrence Lessig: Video and sound
‘Writing’ is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound. -Lawrence Lessig, professor and political activist (b. 3 Jun 1961)
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Margaret Atwood: Word after word
“A word after a word after a word is power.” —Margaret Atwood, poet and novelist (b. 1939).
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Thomas Hardy: In verse
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. -Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (2 Jun 1840-1928)
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Jules Henri Poincaré: Science
Science is built with facts as a house is with stones, but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -Jules Henri Poincaré, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (29 Apr 1854-1912)
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William Wordsworth: Creative Art
High is our calling, Friend! — Creative Art / (Whether the instrument of words she use, Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) / Demands the service of a mind and heart. -William Wordsworth, poet (1770-1850)
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Edward de Bono: Feelings and perception
“Feelings can control our perception. Yet without feelings, we wouldn’t be interested in perceiving anything at all. We do need feelings to direct and broaden our attention. But if the feelings are too strong they restrict and narrow our attention. Without feelings people would be robots and that would not be too much fun. But…
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Benjamin Spock: Man
Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he’s potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of…
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Salman Khan: Movies
“We lack the passion for making movies. We lack technology. We race against time and we are impatient.” —Salman Khan.
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Intelligence of a ruler
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” —Niccolo Machiavelli, political philosopher and author (3 May 1469-1527)
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Sigmund Freud: Thinking
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. -Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856-1939)
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Yip Harburg: Life is short
Life is short, short, brother! / Ain’t it the truth? / And there is no other / Ain’t it the truth? / You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth! -Yip Harburg, lyricist (8 Apr 1896-1981)
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Terry Pratchett: Life into a story
“If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.” —Terry Pratchett, novelist (28 Apr 1948-2015).
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Christopher Morley: Life
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. -Christopher Morley, journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet (5 May 1890-1957) .
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Zelda Dvoretzky: Quotable
If you wish to be thought of as scrutable, you should always choose words that are suitable. If they’re too high-flown your readers will groan and your writings will never be “quootable.” -Zelda Dvoretzky, Haifa, Israel
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Sona Mohapatra: Adulation
“Well, the problem in India is our need to deify celebrities. Everyone must be held to the same standard — but our celebrities, especially actors, are given a pedestal because the virtues of their on-screen personas are attributed to them. People confuse characters written by someone else, propped up by costumes, sets, dialogues, somebody else’s…
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Octavio Paz: Language
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears. -Octavio Paz, poet, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1914-1998)
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Kailash Satyarthi: Enslavement
“The world cannot be civilised, cultured if even a single child is enslaved. If one girl is forced to work as a child prostitute, then we cannot call ourselves religious, cultured and developed world.” —Kailash Satyarthi.
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Karan Johar: Offence
” Offence is no longer defence. It is a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time.”—Karan Johar.
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Ernest J Gaines: Men holding hands, men holding guns
“Why is it that , as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing men holding guns than holding hands?” —Ernest J Gaines.
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Philip Mathew: Stepping stones to success
” A word to students entering colleges. Many stepping stones to success are not linked to talent. I’ll give you four: punctuality, perseverance, passion and preparedness.” —Philip Mathew.
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Preeti Shenoy: Love and technology
“Snooping on your partner will not save your relationship. Rather, use technology to enhance your love.”—Preeti Shenoy.
