Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Scott Wolf: Work
“You can’t do your work worrying about what people will think of it – you kind of just have to do your work. ” —Scott Wolf
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Samuel Smiles: The shortest way
“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. ” —Samuel Smiles.
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Melina Mercouri: Of Greeks, Turks and transactions…
“And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?” —Melina Mercouri.
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Neale Donald Walsch: Religion
“One either has to believe in a God who’s terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that ‘we are better than they.’ ” Neale Donald Walsch
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Thomas Jefferson: Polite society
“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ” Thomas Jefferson
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Alan Thicke: Fun and games
“Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it. ” Alan Thicke
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Jon Ronson: Philosophy
“Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn’t matter what’s going on in David Icke‘s mind. It’s how other people take him.”—Jon Ronson
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Anne Lamott: Weight training for life
It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life. —Anne Lamott Related articles Five Minutes with Anne Lamott: On Writing and Life(mlswift.me) Quote for Today: Anne Lamott(synkroniciti.com) Contributor Blog Post by Emily Shearer(minervarising.com) Writing The Truth, With Respect For Others(latebloomlisa.wordpress.com)
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Steve Buscemi: Naivety
“There’s something about being naive. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are. what you can and can’t do.”—Steve Buscemi.
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Carol Moseley Braun: And the Constitution says…
“To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don’t tap people’s phones and poke into their e-mail and you don’t arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them. ” —Carol Moseley Braun.
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W. Somerset Maugham: Beauty and humour
“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. ” —W. Somerset Maugham.
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Austin L. Sorensen: God as father
“A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.” Austin L. Sorensen
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C. S. Lewis: Love
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your…
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George Jean Nathan: Cosmetic humour
“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. ” George Jean Nathan
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Bob Packwood: Judgment
“Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience. ” Bob Packwood
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Evan Esar: Success
“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, & inspiration.“ —Evan Esar, American humorist.
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Lars von Trier: Work humor
“You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance. ” Lars von Trier
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Luke 9:23: Whoever wishes to be my follower…
“Whoever wishes to be my follower must deny his very self, take up his cross each day, and follow in my steps.”—Luke 9:23.
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Winston Churchill: Enemies
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. ”Winston Churchill
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George Murray: Adulthood
“I feel as though I’ve fooled the world into thinking I’m an adult and now they’re letting me procreate. ” George Murray
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Adam Sandler: Chemistry
“Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it. ” —Adam Sandler.
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Simon Wiesenthal: Humour
“Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. ” Simon Wiesenthal
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Sam Levenson: Even-handedness
“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” —Sam Levenson.
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Theodore Roosevelt: Mistakes
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. ” —Theodore Roosevelt.
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John Wooden: Character and reputation
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ” —John Wooden.
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Prince Charles: Straight in the eyes
“Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.” —Prince Charles.
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Christopher Lasch: 'Nostalgia'
“A society that has made “nostalgia” a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. ”—Christopher Lasch.
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Pope St. Gregory the Great: Proof of love
“The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.” —Pope St. Gregory the Great
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Allen Klein: Humor
“Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. ” Allen Klein
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Harriet Tubman: Dream
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. ” —Harriet Tubman.
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Brian Molko: Of imitators and clones
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. ” —Brian Molko.
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Mother Teresa: Love
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God‘s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness…
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Kahlil Gibran: Mayhap
‘When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, “Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison.” And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, “Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.”‘ —Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931).
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Bob Wilkin: Most fortunate
“Because of Christ‘s resurrection–and His guarantee that He will resurrect all who believe in Him–we are the most fortunate, the most blest people on the planet Our faith is effective, we are not in our sins, our departed loved ones are with the Lord, and the labor we do for Him is not in…
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John Milton: Truth
“Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. ” —John Milton.
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Thomas Edison: Opportunity
“Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ” —Thomas Edison.
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Alexander Woollcott: Grosser reminiscences
“I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.” Alexander Woollcott
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Unknown: Patience
“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”—Author Unknown.
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Booker T. Washington: Of ditches
“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ” Booker T. Washington.
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Pope Benedict XVI: Almsgiving
“Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy: rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave His entire self for us. ” —Pope Benedict XVI.
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J. K. Rowling: Damage
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. ” —J. K. Rowling.
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Gertrude Stein: Scientific
“It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. ” Gertrude Stein
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Frederick Buechner: Despair
“Despair has been called the unforgivable sin–not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.” —Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973.
