Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Abraham Lincoln: Knowing better
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. ” —Abraham Lincoln
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Martin Luther King Jr.: End of our lives
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr.
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Kristin Armstrong: Running
As you know there are many reasons why I run, but perhaps one of the finest is the community that running manifests. Celebrate your community, any chance you get —Kristin Armstrong, South Meets West, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com
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Dean Inge: Honesty
“Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. ” ~Dean Inge.
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Robert Francis Kennedy: Ripples and currents
“Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls…
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Helen Rowland: The hardest task
“The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. ” Helen Rowland
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Publilius Syrus: Identity
“It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.” —Publilius Syrus.
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Peter Jennings: Objectivity
“I’m a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective. ” Peter Jennings
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Madonna: True bravery
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.” Madonna
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Robert Frost: Poetry
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ”—Robert Frost
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James Truslow Adams: Age
“Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. ” James Truslow Adams
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Thomas Aquinas: Law
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. —Thomas Aquinas
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Alan Bleasdale: Parallel vigor
“To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. ” —Alan Bleasdale.
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Kurt Vonnegut: No wiser than before?
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ” Kurt Vonnegut
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Jack Layton: Responsible government
“The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government. ” Jack Layton
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Jules Feiffer: Great vocabulary
“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.” Jules…
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Jim Taylor: Running
Focus on what it’s like to be outdoors, to feeling your body move, to the relationships you may have built through running. These are experiences that can be reproduced with every run—you don’t need a good finish time to produce them. By shifting the focus from results to running itself you’ll feel empowered. Jim Taylor,…
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James Allen: Sacrifice
“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much. ” —James Allen.
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James Carville: Catholicism and abortion
“Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion. ”—James Carville.
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Amy Peavy-Smith: Running
Running has taught me that we are capable of doing more than we ever imagined, that we can overcome huge obstacles, and that consistency pays off! Running is my sanity and my sanctuary. Amy Peavy-Smith, Runner’s World Challenger of the W eek
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Thomas Edison: Tenant farmers
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. … I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and…
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Daniel Pickle: Running
Experience running. There are amazing things that happen when you run. Make sure that you take the time to recognize and appreciate them Daniel Pickle, Runner’s World Challenger of the Week
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Martin Luther King, Jr: Bitterness
“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. ” Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Kathrine Switzer: Running
Ever since I began running when I was thirteen, there was a palpable difference between the days I ran and those I didn’t: My running days had more significance. Missing a day wasn’t a major tragedy or anything – sometimes you can’t help it or you just don’t feel like it. A day I didn’t…
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John Ciardi: Courage of their confusions
“It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. ” John Ciardi
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Prophet
“If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”—Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Anne Bronte: Sensitive heart
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. ” —Anne Bronte
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Melody Beattie: Gratitude
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and…
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Betty Rollin: Feminists and sex objects
“Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object; the difference is, that that is not all she longs to be. ” Betty Rollin
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Margaret Cho: Privacy and security
“Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. ” —Margaret Cho.
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Aristotle: Foolish corner
“There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.” —Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE).
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Carl Friedrich Bahrdt: Holy and inalienable
The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes. —Carl Friedrich Bahrdt
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Heidi Neck: Entrepreneurial
Organizations are not entrepreneurial; people are.” — Heidi Neck, professor of entrepreneurial studies, as quoted at SmartBlog on Leadership.
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William Hazlit: More concern and uneasiness
“The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.” —William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830).
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Plato: Real tragedy of life
“We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” —Plato.
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Benjamin Franklin: Marriage and love
“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Bebe Neuwirth: True to themselves
“People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well. ” —Bebe Neuwirth.
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Terry Brooks: Constantly put to test
“We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. ” —Terry Brooks
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Kristin Armstrong: Running
“I love waking up rested and ready to meet the new year in the finest way possible – running into it.” —Kristin Armstrong, Oui, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com.
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Lucille Ball: Do you want something done?
“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. ” —Lucille Ball.
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Cokie Roberts: Algebra and prayer
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. —Cokie Roberts
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Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer
Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness. —Mahatma Gandhi
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Mark Twain: Profanity and prayer
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.” —Mark Twain.
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Soren Kierkegaard: Prayer
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” —Soren Kierkegaard
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair: An atheist and prayer
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. Madalyn Murray O’Hair
