Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Victor Hugo: Amnesty
Embed from Getty Images “Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it.” ~Victor Hugo.
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Alan Alda: Assumptions
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” ~Alan Alda. Embed from Getty Images
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Alphonse Karr: Three characters
“Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ” —Alphonse Karr.
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Choose To Be Respected
My Positive Outlooks There will be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Always pick being respected, that love without respect is always fleeting — but that respect could grow into real, lasting LOVE. — Unknown View original post
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Leonardo Da Vinci: Three classes of people
“There are three classes of people: Those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.” ~Leonardo Da Vinci.
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Joan Didion: A place of belonging
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” – Joan Didion. Embed from Getty Images
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Ben Hecht: News and the world
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964). Embed from Getty Images
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Virginia Woolf: Peace
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/55853534 “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” —Virginia Woolf.
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Virginia Woolf: Valuing life
“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.” —Virginia Woolf. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/171122185
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Charles Caleb Colton: Bundle of paradoxes
Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images “The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.” —Charles Caleb Colton.
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Justin Timberlake: Achievements
“I think in the first half of my 20s, I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I’m looking around now and I’m like, where am I running?” —Justin Timberlake. Embed from Getty Images
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Michel de Montaigne: Memory and lying
“He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.” —Michel de Montaigne. Embed from Getty Images
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Erica Jong: Talent and dark places
“Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.” —Erica Jong. Embed from Getty Images
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Woody Allen: Death
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/178222591 “I am not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” ~Woody Allen.
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Clint Eastwood: Young at heart
“I’m always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That’s the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.” —Clint Eastwood. Embed from Getty Images
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Baltasar Gracian: Hope
“Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. ” —Baltasar Gracian.
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Elisabeth Squires: Cleavage rule
“First rule of cleavage: it’s not how low you go, but where and when you show.” ― Elisabeth Squires. Embed from Getty Images
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Donna Lynn Hope: Crumbs and cleavage
“Unless its done on purpose, crumbs and cleavage don’t go together.” ― Donna Lynn Hope.
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Jerry Seinfeld: Cleavage
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/120341704 http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/51763162 “Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don’t stare at it. It’s too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away.”― Jerry Seinfeld.
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Monica Bellucci: Divorce
“When people divorce, it’s always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.” —Monica Bellucci. Embed from Getty Images
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Virginia Woolf: Conformity
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/171080859 “Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.” —Virginia Woolf.
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Derek Bok: Humane and caring?
“I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say. ” —Derek Bok. Embed from Getty Images
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Virginia Woolf: Locked in, locked out
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.” —Virginia Woolf.
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Charles Caleb Colton: Paradox
“It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.” —Charles Caleb Colton.
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O Henry: Womanly pastime
“If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.” ~O Henry. Embed from Getty Images
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Walter Lippmann: Conscience
“Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.” —Walter Lippmann, journalist (1889-1974).
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Peter Coyote: Fact, not opinion
“Interdependence is a fact, it’s not an opinion. ” —Peter Coyote. Embed from Getty Images
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Erma Bombeck: Bathing suits and spouses
“People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow. ” —Erma Bombeck. Embed from Getty Images
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Elias Canetti: Praise
“One should use praise to recognize what one is not. ” —Elias Canetti. Embed from Getty Images
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Muhammad Ali: Silence
“Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.” ~Muhammad Ali. Embed from Getty Images
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Hrithik Roshan: Fitness mantra
“As actors, we create a persona… an illusion to sell dreams. I didn’t want to hide anymore. I wanted to be the person people thought I was — fit.” ~Hrithik Roshan.
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An Wang: Heart and business
Embed from Getty Images “You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. ” —An Wang.
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Hrithik Roshan: Engines
“Our bodies are like engines. If our engine is running smoothly, our car will face lesser bumps on the road at high speed…We make a mistake when we starve ourselves. Food in our stomach is the fuel that makes us work better.” ~Hrithik Roshan. Embed from Getty Images
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Max Lucado: Worry-slapper
“Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? ‘I’ll take care of it in a moment.’ Of course you don’t! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.” —Max Lucado. Embed from Getty Images
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Usher: Body care
Embed from Getty Images “If you take care of your body, it’ll take care of you. The benefit obviously is that I’m protecting my body from being harmed.” ~Usher.
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Philip Larkin: Nothing, like something, happens anywhere
“Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.” ~Philip Larkin.
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Virginia Woolf: Truth
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” —Virginia Woolf.
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Bruce Lee: Limits
“If you always put limits on everything you do, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus; and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” ~Bruce Lee.
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Anthony Bourdain: Control freak
“I’m a control freak. If you’re going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.” —Anthony Bourdain. Embed from Getty Images
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Germaine Greer: Children
“We can only afford two children’ is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than ‘we don’t like children’.” ― Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch. Embed from Getty Images
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Sidney Sheldon: Up all night
“When people tell me I’ve kept them up all night, I feel like I’ve succeeded.” ~Sidney Sheldon. Embed from Getty Images
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Sterling Hayden: Hamburger meat
I don’t think I’ll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that’s all.—Sterling Hayden. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/502331053
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Germaine Greer: Men in uniform
“Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.” ― Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch. Embed from Getty Images
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Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld: Love
“There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.” -Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, aphorist (1613-1680).
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Jonathan LaPaglia: Slapping and children
I just couldn’t imagine hitting a child. But in ‘The Slap’ it’s an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself – would you step in if a child was out of control? —Jonathan LaPaglia. Embed from Getty Images
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Germaine Greer: Capture
“I got him’ is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is ‘I lost him’. If we could stop thinking in terms of capture, we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives’ bonds and our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outstripped or belittled.” ― Germaine Greer,…
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Karl Kraus: Solitary confinement
“The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.” ~Karl Kraus.
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Germaine Greer: Hoops of steel
“Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband’s favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to reject the consensus of opinion and find reassurance only in her…
