Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Louis Pasteur: Tenacity
“Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal: My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” —Louis Pasteur, chemist and microbiologist.
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Josh Billings: Great power in words
“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.” ~Josh Billings.
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Alvin Toffler: Daring and caution
“It is better to err on the side of daring than on the side of caution.” ~Alvin Toffler.
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Robert Frost: Boss
“By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day.” —Robert Frost.
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Sam Levenson: Temptation
“Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we’ll find it.” ~Sam Levenson.
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Thomas Keller: Soul to the recipe
“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.” ~Thomas Keller, chef, writer, restaurateur.
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Wayne Dyer: That’s life
“When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.” ~Wayne Dyer.
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Democritus: Brave man
“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.” ~Democritus.
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Robert F. Kennedy: Fail greatly, achieve greatly
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” — Robert F. Kennedy, political leader.
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Harper Lee: In the morning
“Things are always better in the morning.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Harper Lee: Life, routine and unbearable
“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Rahul Gandhi: Patriotism
“Patriotism is in my blood. 32 bullets were fired at my grandmother, Indira Gandhi. My father, Rajiv Gandhi, was also assassinated for the cause of this country. My family has taught me lessons in patriotism. So, I do not need any certificate from the RSS or the BJP.” —Rahul Gandhi.
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Harper Lee: Trash
“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white…
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Harper Lee: Bibles and whisky bottles
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the…
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Harper Lee: Real nice
“Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Harper Lee: Adjectives
“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee: Conscience
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Harper Lee: Real courage
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. – Atticus Finch” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Harper Lee: Point of view
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Luc de Clapiers: Sweet to order
“There are none so sour as those who are sweet to order.” —Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, essayist (6 Aug 1715-1747) .
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Garrison Keillor: Shallow life
“It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.” —Garrison Keillor, radio host and author (b. 7 Aug 1942) .
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Andrew Sullivan: Insecure faith
“I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn’t threaten me or my faith. And if one’s faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people’s lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don’t you think?” —Andrew Sullivan, author and editor (b. 10 Aug 1963) .
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Gulzar: Dreams
Dreams heed no borders, the eyes need no visas. With eyes shut I walk across the line in time. All the time. -Gulzar, poet, lyricist, and film director (b. 18 Aug 1934)
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Green Ingersoll: Eternity
“In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.” —Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899) .
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Roberts Rinehart: Murderous hatred
“I hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.” —Mary Roberts Rinehart, novelist (12 Aug 1876-1958) .
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Felix Adler: Supreme Ethical Rule
“The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.” —Felix Adler, professor, lecturer, and reformer (13 Aug 1851-1933) .
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Russell Baker: Television’s basic American education
“By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education. … From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.” —Russell…
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Jarod Kintz: Losing your mind
“Losing your mind is preferable to losing your woman, because if you lose your woman you will also lose your mind, and then you’re left with nothing.” ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE.
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Ogden Nash: Bigoted mind
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971)
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Aristotle: Good man, good citizen
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
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Herta Müller: Love’s real secret
The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse. -Herta Müller, novelist, poet, Nobel laureate (b. 17 Aug 1953)
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Edgar Guest: Walking sermon
I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. -Edgar Guest, poet (20 Aug 1881-1959)
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Jorge Luis Borges: Fallible god
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. -Jorge Luis Borges, writer (24 Aug 1899-1986)
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Peter Lynch: Markets
“You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, you won’t do well in the markets.” ~Peter Lynch.
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Sunny Leone: Q & A
“I don’t believe in yelling or name calling. Instead, I wait till the other person is done and then answer to the best of my ability.” —Sunny Leone.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faithful service
“Not the makers of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Henry D Thoreau: Enterprising citizen
“If you walk in the woods for love of them … you could be regarded as a loafer. But if you … shear off those woods and make the earth bald … you are deemed an … enterprising citizen.” ~Henry D Thoreau.
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Mahesh Bhatt: No pattern
“If there is a pattern to all this, it is that there is no pattern. The key insight is that we are living in a time of chaos!” ~Mahesh Bhatt.
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Walt Kelly: Us, the enemy
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” —Walt Kelly, cartoonist (25 Aug 1913-1973).
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WB Yeats: Man’s glory
“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends.” ~WB Yeats.
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George Eliot: Less difficult
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” ~George Eliot.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Enduring force
“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow enduring force straining to win the sky.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Robin Williams: Cocaine
“Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you are making too much money.” ~Robin Williams.
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Jack Kerouac: Nature
“Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. Let men work and love and fight it off.” ~Jack Kerouac.
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Alanis Morissette: Perfect
“We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.” ~Alanis Morissette.
