Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Michel Foucault: What they do
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” ― Michel Foucault
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Hillary Clinton: Being real
I like live audiences, with real people – virtual reality is no substitute. ~Hillary Clinton
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Kurt Vonnnegut: Art and pretense
“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.” ~Kurt Vonnegut
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Interests
“One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.” — Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. first lady
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Sebastian Faulks: Priority
“You put your time where your priority is.” ~Sebastian Faulks, British writer and journalist.
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John F. Kennedy: Hellish quote
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” — John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president
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Lou Holtz: The way you carry it
It’s not the load that breaks you, it’s the way you carry it. ~Lou Holtz
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Henry Ford: Together
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” ~Henry Ford
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Ann Landers: Signs of strength
“Some people believe that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go — and then do it.” — Ann Landers, Advice columnist
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John F Kennedy: Myth
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” ~John F Kennedy
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Arundhati Roy: Never, never to forget
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never…
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Douglas Adams: His wife's idiot
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. ~Douglas Adams, English writer.
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Sam Walton: Only one boss
“There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” — Sam Walton, American businessman.
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Jim Morrison: Real love
“That’s what real love amounts to—letting a person be what he really is.” ~Jim Morrison
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Pope John Paul II: Stupidity
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it. ~Pope John Paul II
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Chinese proverb: Play the game!
“If you must play, decide upon three things at the start:the rules of the game, the stakes and the quitting time.“ ~Chinese proverb.
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Bill Gates: On MOOCs
Bill Gates on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): “The ideal would be to separate out the idea of proving your knowledge from the way you acquired that knowledge.”
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Anne Bronte: Walk firmly over stones
“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. ” ––Anne Bronte.
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Pope John Paul II: Family
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. ~Pope John Paul II
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William Penn: Right and wrong
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” —William Penn
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Kristin Armstrong: Running
“I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace. With that strategy in place I can push myself for pleasure, not punishment. Maybe you can only really go when you let go.” —Kristin Armstrong, Horizon, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com.
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Walter Hilton: Love of God
I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy. ~ Walter Hilton
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Norman Mailer: Disparity
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks…
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Ben Dattner: Center of the web
“Twenty-first century leaders might benefit from thinking of themselves as being in the center of a web rather than on top of a pyramid.” —Ben Dattner, a New York University adjunct professor, as quoted in SmartBlog on Leadership.
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Jean Baudrillard: Television's perpetual day
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. –Jean Baudrillard, sociologist and philosopher (1929-2007)
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Arthur Schopenhauer: Of letters and opinions
“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thomas Fuller: Patience and suffering
“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. ” —Thomas Fuller.
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William Gurnall: Withdrawing God
“The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God. ” —William Gurnall.
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Warren Buffett: Reputation
“It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” – Warren Buffett
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Jane Austen: Dress and sense
“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.” —Jane Austen.
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Desmond Tutu: Cursed neutrality
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ” –—Desmond Tutu.
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Samuel E. Morison: Not of the long-suffering wife
“If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife. ” —Samuel E. Morison.
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Pope John Paul II: Freedom
“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” —Pope John Paul II.
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Bruce Lee: Bank of fortitude
“I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is…
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Publilius Syrus: Haste and prudence
“Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.” —Publilius Syrus
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Gloria Vanderbilt: Fame
“The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.” —Gloria Vanderbilt.
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Johnny Ball: Ageism
“Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ” —Johnny Ball
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Bob Marley: Prayers to the devil
“If you get down and quarrel everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say. ” —Bob Marley.
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Julie Burchill: Pretty faces
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast. –Julie Burchill, writer and journalist (b. 1959)
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Elie Wiesel: Injustice
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. –Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928 Related articles Elie Wiesel on How He Became a Bernie Madoff Victim (VIDEO)(huffingtonpost.com) Night by Elie Wiesel Audiobook Nazi Holocaust Survivor(lissakr11humanelife.wordpress.com) The Opposite…
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Herbert Prochnow: Questions and answers
“You never have to know all the answers because you won’t be asked all the questions. ”—Herbert Prochnow.
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Robert Frost: Nonsense
“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. ” Robert Frost.
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Pablo Picasso: Good taste
Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. –Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (1881-1973)
