Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Maya Angelou: Untold story
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ~Maya Angelou.
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Maulana Wahiduddin Khan: Think positive
“Engage in some positive engineering of your mind. Negative thinking breeds hatred and pride. You have to do merciless introspection. It is our test to convert the thinking of people from negative to positive.” ~Maulana Wahiduddin Khan.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Thin ice
“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Azim Premji: Supermen and superwomen
“In a country our size and complexity, a few supermen or superwomen can’t change the nation. We should engage and energize the average citizens.” —Azim Premji.
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Kishore Kumar: Crazy world
“In this crazy world, only the truly sane man appears to be mad.” ~Kishore Kumar.
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Tommy Douglas: Symbols and monuments
“I don’t mind being a symbol but I don’t want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I’ve seen what the pigeons can do to them.” ~Tommy Douglas.
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Helen Keller: Optimism
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller, author and political activist.
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Caroline Flack: Social media
“You can think social media is real life but you have to remember that it’s not. Someone wouldn’t come up to you in the street and say: ‘You’re a big fat ugly s****’, yet they find it really easy to say online.” —Caroline Flack.
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Viktor Frankl: Tolerance
“Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.” — Viktor Frankl, neurologist and psychiatrist.
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John Wooden: What you can do
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden, basketball coach.
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D Simone: May your arms never tire
“May Light always surround you; Hope kindle and rebound you. May your Hurts turn to Healing; Your Heart embrace Feeling. May Wounds become Wisdom; Every Kindness a Prism. May Laughter infect you; Your Passion resurrect you. May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires. Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire.” ― D.…
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Warren Bennis: Excellence Vs Mediocrity
“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.” ~Warren Bennis.
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Satyajit Ray: Killing oneself
“Killing oneself without leaving a note behind is like issuing a threat to no one in particular and everyone in general.” ~Satyajit Ray.
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Paulo Coelho: Political Attitude
“Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.” ~Paulo Coelho.
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Salvador Dali: Intelligence and ambition
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” ~Salvador Dali.
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Haruki Murakami: Start and end
“Even if we could turn back, we’d probably never end up where we started.” ~Haruki Murakami.
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Albert Einstein: Rules of the game
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” ~Albert Einstein.
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Dinah Maria Mulock: Christmas time
“It is the Christmas time: And up and down ‘twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.” —Dinah Maria Mulock.
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Michio Karu: Murderous thoughts
“I suggest we put a chip in robots’ brains to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.” ~Michio Karu.
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Ansel Adams: Sharp image, fuzzy concept
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” —Ansel Adams, photographer (20 Feb 1902-1984).
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Margaret Mead: Thoughtful citizens
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” —Margaret Mead, anthropologist (16 Dec 1901-1978).
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William Faulkner: Victory
“No battle is ever won … Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” ~William Faulkner.
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Mata Amritanandamayi: Sleep without fear
“Everyone in the world should sleep without fear for at least one night. There should be one day when there is no violence, no one is injured, no one is harmed. All people young and old should serve the poor and needy, at least for one day serve selflessly. Love is the way.” ~Mata Amritanandamayi.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti: Separation
“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or an European, or anything else, you are being violent. Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti.
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Stewart Brand: Style and form
“Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student.” —Stewart Brand, writer and editor (b. 14 Dec 1938).
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Khaled Hosseini: Unhappiness
“Some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely and without recourse.” —Khaled Hosseini, And The Mountains Echoed.
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Priyanka Chopra: Relationships
“I don’t think you should be in a relationship if your partner is in love with someone else. It is terrible. I believe you should be with the one you love and with whomever you find happiness—this applies to men and women. There are no excuses if you are unhappy in a relationship.” —Priyanka Chopra.
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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.
