Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Robert Brault: No tomorrow
“There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.” —Robert Brault.
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Jarod Kintz: Regrets
“One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.” ~Jarod Kintz.
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Laurence J Peter: Expert
“Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.” ~Laurence J Peter.
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Janet Yellen: Unassailable
“That a central bank charged with controlling inflation should be independent from government is unassailable.” —Janet Yellen.
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Nelson Mandela: Passion
“There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” — Nelson Mandela, political activist and president of South Africa.
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Candace Bushnell: Soulmates
“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.” —Candace Bushnell, Sex And The City.
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Chuck Palahniuk: Reasons or excuses
“All human beings search for either reasons to be good or excuses to be bad.” ~Chuck Palahniuk.
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Manisha Koirala: Cancer
“I think cancer helps to transform a person. It affected me so much that it enabled me to grow, appreciate life and honour my body.” —Manisha Koirala, Actor.
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Abraham Lincoln: Happiness
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~Abraham Lincoln.
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Cory Doctorow: Determination of a kid
“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.” —Cory Doctorow, author and journalist (b. 17 Jul 1971).
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Dennis Miller: Insightful shallowness
“There’s nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you’re insightful about it.” ~Dennis Miller.
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Tim Berners-Lee: Social basis
“Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet.” ~Tim Berners-Lee.
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Bill Hicks: Children
“Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full-time job and children.” ~Bill Hicks.
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Soren Kierkegaard: Tyrants and martyrs
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.” ~Soren Kierkegaard.
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Rabindranath Tagore: Trees
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” ~Rabindranath Tagore.
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Shashank Manohar: Conflict of interest
“You cannot stretch conflict of interest to absurd levels. You can even say that because I am the #BCCI president I can call any #Ranji trophy selector and influence a selection. Conflict of interest has to be direct link, not a remote one.” —#ShashankManohar in the #Week dated December 6, 2015.
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Douglas MacArthur: Your age
“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” ~Douglas MacArthur.
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Bukhari: Signs of a hypocrite
“The signs of a hypocrite are three: Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie, and whenever he promises, he breaks his promise and whenever he is entrusted, he betrays and proves he is dishonest.” ~Bukhari.
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Norman Wisdom: Sorry circumstances
“I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.” ~#NormanWisdom.
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George Orwell: Hole-and-corner way
“One’s got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can’t put things right in a hole-and-corner way.” ~George Orwell.
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Terri Guillemets: Weather
“Weather is a great metaphor for life—sometime it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain!” ~#TerriGuillemets.
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A-Baihaqi: Strongest and most patient
“He who is victorious over his passion at the time of anger is the strongest among you. He who forgives, having the power to release his anger is the most patient among you.” ~A-Baihaqi.
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Anais Nin: Not very far
“We are going to the moon—that’s not very far. Man has got so much farther to go within himself.” ~Anais Nin.
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Malcolm X: Apartheid
“There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.” ~Malcolm X.
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Lana Turner: Successful man, successful woman
“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.” ~#LanaTurner.
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Chetan Bhagat: Ignored
“Girls cannot stand being ignored, that too for a textbook.” —Chetan Bhagat, Half Girlfriend.
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George Orwell: Nationalism
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.” ~#GeorgeOrwell.
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Chetan Bhagat: Indecisive woman
“An army of intellectual men cannot solve the riddle created by an indecisive woman.” —Chetan Bhagat, Half Girlfriend.
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Tim Berners-Lee: Future and past
“The future is still so much bigger than the past.” ~#TimBerners-Lee.
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Clint Eastwood: “I” people, “We” people
“There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘We’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘We’ person.” ~Clint Eastwood.
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Nicolas Boileau: Nature
“Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes herself a way.” — Nicolas Boileau, poet and critic.
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Franz Kafka: Advertisements
“I do not read #advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.” ~#FranzKafka.
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Rembrandt: Nature
“Choose only one master — Nature.” —Rembrandt, painter and etcher (15 Jul 1606-1669).
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Franz Kafka: Book, an axe
“A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.” —Franz Kafka, novelist (3 Jul 1883-1924) .
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Angelina Jolie: Weakness
“It is a weakness when people try to pretend that they are not vulnerable , because they all are. We are all going to get sick and we are all going to die, and we all have things that upset us and embarrass us and scare us.” —#AngelinaJolie.
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Jim Collins: Right people
“The old adage ‘People are your most important asset’ is wrong. The right people are your most important asset.” —Jim Collins.
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E E Cummings: Listen, let’s go
“Listen: There’s a hell of a good universe next door: Let’s go.” ~E E Cummings.
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Mickey Mantle: Teams and gangs
“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.” —Mickey Mantle.
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Margaret Atwood: Feminist
“Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who’ll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it’s the latter, so I sign up.” —Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet (b. 18 Nov 1939).
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Angie Dickinson: Frank Sinatra
“My mother was against me being an actress—until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.” ~Angie Dickinson.
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Dr. Martin Henry Fischer: Modern drugs
“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.” — Dr. Martin Henry Fischer.
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John Swinton: Fourth Estate
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for…
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Leo Buscaglia: Life lived for tomorrow
“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day behind from being realized.” ~Leo Buscaglia.
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Milton Berle: Television by candlelight
“We owe a lot to Thomas Edison—if it wasn’t for him, we’d be watching television by candlelight.” ~Milton Berle.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Rock pile
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (29 Jun 1900-1944) .
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Rudyard Kipling: Strong men
“But there is neither East nor West, Border nor Breed, nor Birth. When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!” ~Rudyard Kipling.
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Charles Bukowski: Weary time
“What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.” ~Charles Bukowski.
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Tom Stoppard: Healthy attitude
“A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” ~Tom Stoppard.
