Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Grandpappy O'Donnell: Any fool can be happy…
“…any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ~Grandpappy O’Donnell
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Salman Rushdie: Books
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. -Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 1947)
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Guy Debord: Quotations
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. —Guy Debord
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Henry Wadsworth: Sad, not cold
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth
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Mandell Creighton: Doing good
“No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. ” —Mandell Creighton.
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James Harrington: The Law
“The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men. ” James Harrington
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Andy Rooney: Computers and paper
“Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads. ” Andy Rooney
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Bradley Whitford: Life
“Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us. The joy is in the journey.”– Bradley Whitford, American actor.
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James Ramsey: Reason against unreason
“Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.” James Ramsey
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Joyce Carol Oates: Being Alice
“I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.” —Joyce Carol Oates, writer (b. 1938).
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Edward Koch: A clean bandage
“In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.” ~Edward Koch
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Plato: Poetry
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ” —Plato.
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David Jenkins: God
“No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ” David Jenkins
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Imagination without taste
“There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. ” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Ruth Benedict: Happiest excitement
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil. ~Ruth Benedict (1887–1948), U.S. anthropologist. An Anthropologist at Work, part 2 (1959).
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Sarah Caldwell: Learn everything you can
“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. ” Sarah Caldwell
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Samuel Johnson: Bellywise
“He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. ” Samuel Johnson
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Bob Glover and Shelly-Lynn Florence Glover: Consistency and discipline
Consistency requires discipline. Force yourself out the door. Bob Glover and Shelly-Lynn Florence Glover, The Competitive Runner’s Handbook
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Gilbert K. Chesterton: Familiar things, foreign nations
“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. ” Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Dale Carnegie: Business success
“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. ” Dale Carnegie
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Erma Bombeck: Dreams and dreamers
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely. –Erma Bombeck, author (1927-1996)
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Bobby Knight: Preparation, not luck
“I don’t believe in luck — I believe in preparation.”– Bobby Knight, American basketball coach. ELMENDORF AIR FORCE, Alaska — Coach Bobby Knight, Texas Tech University basketball, watches his players practice at the fitness center here Nov. 21. Coach Knight spoke with Airmen and Soldiers before his team began practicing for the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska…
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Jean de la Bruyere: Unconcealed folly
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ” —Jean de la Bruyere.
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Igor Sikorsky: Spark
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.” — Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aviation pioneer
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Anatole France: Beautiful path
“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” — Anatole France, French poet
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Dr. Mark Goulston: Apologies
“Never assume that part of the apology can be left unsaid. To really repair a rift, even [the] unsaid needs to be spoken out loud.” — Dr. Mark Goulston, author, writing at Harvard Business Review’s HBR Blog Network. Embed from Getty Images
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Og Mandino: Success
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.” Og Mandino
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Publilius Syrus: Favors
“The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. ” Publilius Syrus
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James E. Casey: Success
“One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself. ” James E. Casey
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Charles Dickens: Nonsense
“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.” —Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870).
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Jacqueline Cochran: Risk
“To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. ” Jacqueline Cochran.
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Orison Swett Marden: Finding one's place
“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. ” Orison Swett Marden
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Albert Einstein: Solving the created
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~Albert Einstein
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Confucius: Forgiveness
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Peace
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
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Benoit B Mandelbrot: Grand promise
“…the promises that science makes to society to win its support. The grand promise is to endeavor solving the great mysteries… But there is also a more practical promise. It consists in helping society to improve, to prevent it acting on the basis of theories that sound nice but are not true to the facts,…
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George Eliot: Buzzing glory
“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. ” —George Eliot.
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Aleksandr Pushkin: Dear illusion
“The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.” —Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, and playwright (1799-1837).
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Oprah Winfrey: So fall down…
“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground. ” —Oprah Winfrey.
