Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Babe Ruth: Don't ever forget
“Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks. ” Babe Ruth. Embed from Getty Images
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Bronwyn Davies: No longer…
“It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.” Bronwyn Davies.
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Colette: Writer or author?
“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” —Colette, author (28 Jan 1873-1954).
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John Cale: Databank
“The value of having a computer, to me, is that it’ll remember everything you do. It’s a databank. ” John Cale. Embed from Getty Images
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George Iles: Student
“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.” George Iles. Embed from Getty Images
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R. A. Salvatore: Grab at the stars
“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them… At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts.” R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn.
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Subhash Chandra Bose: Blood to blood
“India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our way through the enemy’s ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr’s death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army…
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Tryst with destiny
“Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge… At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” ~Jawaharlal Nehru
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Beauty
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ” ~John Kenneth Galbraith.
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Immanuel Kant: Law and ethics
“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. ” ~Immanuel Kant.
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Clare Boothe Luce: Success
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’; They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’” —Clare Boothe Luce. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/138586974
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Clare Boothe Luce: Hopeless situations
Embed from Getty Images “There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.” ~Clare Boothe Luce.
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Clare Boothe Luce: Castle or nursery?
“A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.” ~Clare Boothe Luce.
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Clare Boothe Luce: Frozen asset
Nature abhors a virgin – a frozen asset. —Clare Boothe Luce. Embed from Getty Images
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Clare Boothe Luce: Divorce
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/138586974 “You know, that’s the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.” ~Clare Boothe Luce.
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Clare Boothe Luce: Lying
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/138586974 “Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.” ~Clare Boothe Luce.
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John F. Kennedy: Conformity
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” —John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president.
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Clare Boothe Luce: Wombs and brains
“But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.” ~Clare Boothe Luce. Embed from Getty Images
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Wallace Stevens: Judgment
“You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.” —Wallace Stevens.
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Chinese Proverb: Fear and standing still…
“Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.” —Chinese Proverb.
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Viktor Frankl: Absolute honesty
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997).
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Martin Luther King Jr: Guilt
“One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.” —Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/74280025
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Russell Mark: Competing
“Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one’s character. ” Russell Mark. Embed from Getty Images
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Richard Stallman: Ideas
“Control over the use of one’s ideas really constitutes control over other people’s lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult. ” Richard Stallman.
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr: Refine
“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. ” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Edward Sapir: Noun and verb
“One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.” —Edward Sapir.
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Kahlil Gibran: Listen, utter
“He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.” —Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (6 Jan 1883-1931).
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Salman Rushdie: Religion
‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion’. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect. -Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 1947). Embed from Getty Images
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Ronnie Corbett: Idiots and maniacs
“Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. ” Ronnie Corbett. Embed from Getty Images
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Clare Boothe Luce: Escape
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes. ~Clare Boothe Luce.
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Franklin P. Jones: Autobiographies
“An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. ” Franklin P. Jones.
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Brian Tracy: Dreamers
“All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” —Brian Tracy.
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Bertrand Russell: Mathematics
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.” Bertrand Russell. Embed from Getty Images
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Buddha: Eternal rule
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. ” Buddha. Embed from Getty Images
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Bill McCartney: Coaching
“All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself. ” Bill McCartney. Embed from Getty Images
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Joan Baez: Relationships
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. -Joan Baez, musician (b. 9 Jan 1941). Embed from Getty Images
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GK Chesterton: Religion
“It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary. ” —GK Chesterton.
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Francis Bacon: Money
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626). Embed from Getty Images
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Ivan Turgenev: Readiness
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin. Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist and playwright. Embed from Getty Images
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Aldous Huxley: Truth
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ” —Aldous Huxley. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/56955047
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Marcus Aelius Aurelius: Life
“Every man’s life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.” —Marcus Aelius Aurelius.
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Eric Cantona: Invisible visible
“It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.” ~Eric Cantona.
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David Icke: Truth
“A gift of truth is the gift of love. ” —David Icke. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/508206207
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Thomas Jefferson: Democracy
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. ” Thomas Jefferson. Embed from Getty Images
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Agatha Christie: Success
“Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes – they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. ” Agatha Christie. Embed from Getty Images
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Robert J. Ringer: Reality
“Reality isn’t the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. ” —Robert J. Ringer.
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Jean de la Bruyere: Laugh
“We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed. ” —Jean de la Bruyere. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/500531231
