Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Bennett Cerf: Blessed
“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. ” Bennett Cerf Related articles The Health Benefits of Laughter (everydayhealth.com) Quotes About Laughter (autumnsunshineandgabrielleangel.wordpress.com)
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Anonymous: Value of money
The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow from them. Anonymous
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Jeannette Rankin: As far as they will go
“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. ” Jeannette Rankin
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Presence
“If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.” —W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Bruce Jenner: Reading and dyslexia
“The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they’ve read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree. ” —Bruce Jenner.
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Quintilian: Writing
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. -Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), rhetorician (c. 35-100)
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Peter E. Friedes: Self-absorption
Self-absorbed managers don’t care what employees think. They destroy morale, retard innovation, and block productivity improvements.” — Peter E. Friedes, former CEO, writing at Lead Change Group
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St. Francis: Make me an instrument
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.” —St. Francis.
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Anne Rice: Now you know why you didn't ask…
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. Anne Rice
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Pope John XXIII: Men
“Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” Pope John XXIII
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: Need and greed
There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need, but not for man’s greed. Mohandas K. Gandhi Related articles A World Of Greed(ejaife.wordpress.com) “Bapuji Is No More” – The Death Of Mohandas Gandhi – January 30, 1948(pastdaily.com) The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.(roxsentimental.blogspot.com)…
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Gustave Flaubert: Writing
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” —Gustave Flaubert.
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Carol Welch: Movement
“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.“ —Carol Welch.
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Charles Edward Montague: Rapture
“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ” Charles Edward Montague Related articles Facing the Rapture (christiansnotions.wordpress.com)
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Nina Kuscik: Running
“Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want.” —Nina Kuscik.
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Richard Whately: Selfishness—defined
A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor’s. Richard Whately
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Pope John XXIII: Papal ruminations
“It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.” Pope John XXIII
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Carl Sandburg: Writing promises
“I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read. ” —Carl Sandburg.
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Rudyard Kipling: Mother o' mine
“If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! ” Rudyard Kipling Related articles 50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered(guardian.co.uk) Lost Rudyard Kipling poems published(bbc.co.uk) If by Rudyard Kipling(tedxmanipaluniversitydubai.com) Scholar Finds 50 Lost…
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Jimmy Sangster: Minds and faces
“A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. ” Jimmy Sangster
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Brooks Atkinson: The perfect bureaucrat
“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.” –—Brooks Atkinson Related articles Stewards (meta.wikimedia.org) Sometimes Bureaucrats Do Listen (billgeist.typepad.com) The Failure of Bureaucratic Safeties (rechabite.com) Why Bureaucrats Won’t Fix the Economy (realclearpolitics.com) City Hall Bureaucrats… (poppys-style.com)
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Francoise Sagan: Writing
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.” —Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (1935-2004).
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Origen Adamantius: Jesus and the multitudes
“When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him. ” Origen Adamantius
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Jesse Stuart: Writing
“Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.” —Jesse Stuart.
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Anita Diament: Writerly advice
“I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love. ” —Anita Diament
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Pope John XXIII: Father and children
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.” Pope John XXIII
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George Bernard Shaw: Communication
“The problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Bernard Shaw, playwright.
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Sydney Smith: Marriage
“Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. ” —Sydney Smith.
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Pierre Bayle: No less wit nor less invention
“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.” —Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706).
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Ernest Hello: The Holy Bible
“The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is. ” Ernest Hello
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Betty Friedan: Men, not the enemy
“Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves. ” Betty Friedan Related articles My hero: Betty Friedan by Lionel Shriver(oddonion.com) Feminists can be sexy and funny – but it’s anger that changes the world | Ellie Mae O’Hagan(guardian.co.uk)
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Charlotte Brontë: The vanity of inaction
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. —Charlotte Brontë
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Swami Vivekananda: Self-belief and God
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ” —Swami Vivekananda.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Monstrous
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? ” —Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Emil Zatopek: Training
If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It’s raining? That doesn’t matter. I am tired? That’s besides the point. It’s simply that I just have to. Emil Zatopek, Olympic runner. Related articles 5 Lessons in Achieving Success from Emil Zatopik, Olympic Runner…
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Anthony J. D'Angelo: Strong mind, soft heart
“Have a strong mind and a soft heart. ” Anthony J. D’Angelo
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Ernest Hemingway: Cowardice
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.” –—Ernest Hemingway
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Victor Hugo: Smallness
“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ” —Victor Hugo Related articles 10 Powerful Quotes from Victor Hugo(writingsistersblog.wordpress.com)
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Michel de Montaigne: Virtue
“The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. ” –—Michel de Montaigne.
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Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire: Remedies and illnesses
“Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.” —Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
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Graham Kennedy: What's so funny?
“You didn’t want to laugh, did you? It wasn’t very funny, was it? ” —Graham Kennedy.
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Stephen Ambrose: Looking out for number one
“It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one. ” —Stephen Ambrose.
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Jerry Doyle: Move on…
“If you’re not having fun – I don’t care what you’re doing – don’t do it. Move on. Find something else, life’s too short. ” –—Jerry Doyle.
