Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Henry David Thoreau: Burry words
“The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.” —Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862).
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Martin Luther King, Jr: Mortality and immortality
“Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Unknown: Bravest, strongest and happiest
“The first to apologise is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.”—Unknown.
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Allan Sherman: Leper
“In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world. ” Allan Sherman Related articles Lepers Ask For Increment In Ogun(mosvinbami.com) Nepali Leper Colony All Wrapped Up(coetography.com) Weaving Strengthens Leper Colony(coetography.com) President Mahama Donates To Leprosy Aid Committee(modernghana.com)…
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Edith Lovejoy Pierce: New Year
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year‘s Day.” ― Edith Lovejoy Pierce Related articles Happy New Year Quotes(mademan.com) Happy New Year Greetings From Jenny’s Serendipity!(jennysserendipity.com)
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Abraham Lincoln: Tact
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” —Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the US (1809-1865).
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Edmund Hillary: For the hell of it
“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. ” Edmund Hillary Related articles The Superhero Mentality(liveoutsolutions.wordpress.com)
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Leo Tolstoy: Change
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” —Leo Tolstoy
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John Bunyan: Prayer
“When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. ” —John Bunyan.
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Mary Catherine Bateson: Goals
“Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. ” —Mary Catherine Bateson.
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Neil Gaiman: New Year
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and…
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Brenda Lee: Beatles
“The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something. ” Brenda Lee Related articles Fun Facts, Brenda Lee!(thebirthdayregister.wordpress.com) Brenda Lee was Just 13 Years Old When She Recorded the Christmas Staple “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”(todayifoundout.com) Song of the day: Brenda Lee – Sweet Nuthin’s(thefword.org.uk) Brenda Lee –…
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Paulo Coelho: True love
“True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.” –—Paulo Coelho, Brida.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure
“I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.”― Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Mark Twain: New Year
“New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” – Mark Twain, American Author & Humorist.
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Blaise Pascal: The ear and the heart
“We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. ” —Blaise Pascal.
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Arthur Laurents: Fantasies
“That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies. ” Arthur Laurents
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Kristin Armstrong: Running
‘I do, after all, love a challenge. Not just the result at the end, but the drudgery in the middle, the hard work, the sweat, the mess of transformation. I love the process of getting there, especially when “there” isn’t a fixed point, but the constant renaming as each finish line morphs into another start…
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Leonard Boswell: Work pride
“The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. ” —Leonard Boswell.
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P J O'Rourke: New Year's Eve
“This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” —P J O’Rourke.
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Glenn Frey: Writing
“I’ve read somewhere that when you’re writing, you should stop while you’re doing well so you always want to go back to work. ” —Glenn Frey.
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William Shakespeare: Lend me your ears
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.” —William Shakespeare.
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Mary Ellen Chase: Christmas
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. —Mary Ellen Chase
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Tom Landry: Leadership
“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control. ” Tom Landry
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George Bernard Shaw: The man who writes…
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.” –—George Bernard Shaw.
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Dale Carnegie: Bored with life?
“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. ” Dale Carnegie Related articles Dale Carnegie(thehumpedzebra.wordpress.com) How to Win Friends & Influence People: Dale Carnegie(futurelawyer.typepad.com) Dale Carnegie…
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Doug Coupland: Christmas
Christmas makes everything twice as sad. Doug Coupland Related articles Douglas Coupland among artists pushing for new Vancouver Art Gallery space(theglobeandmail.com) Douglas Coupland to create art for downtown condo tower(calgaryherald.com)
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Joseph Sobran: Silent knights
“The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.” –—Joseph Sobran
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Marie Ebner von Eschenbach: Vanity
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.” —Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, writer (1830-1916)
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Audrey Hepburn: People
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. ” —Audrey Hepburn.
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Jimmy Cannon: Christmas
“Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.” —Jimmy Cannon.
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Gavin MacLeod: Marriage
“It’s very trying on a marriage when you’re doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don’t have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority. ” —Gavin MacLeod.
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Talmud: Single lives
“Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.” The Talmud
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Saint Francis de Sales: Love and fear
“Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. ” —Saint Francis de Sales.
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Len Wein: Evil
“The most unrealistic thing I’ve ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don’t believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil. ” —Len Wein.
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Josh Billings: Imaginative memory
“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ” —Josh Billings.
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William Shakespeare: The devil and scripture
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. ” —William Shakespeare.
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Kingman Brewster, Jr: Not talking
“I’m very curious to know what the hell they’re saying on the phone, but I’d be more worried if they weren’t talking.”Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Richard Lamm: Christmas
“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.” — Richard Lamm.
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Wayne Dyer: Being right
“Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right? ” Wayne Dyer
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Hippocrates: Walking
“Walking is man’s best medicine.” —Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-377 BCE).
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Thomas Fuller: Belief and unbelief
“He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ” —Thomas Fuller
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Allan Lawrence: Confidence
“Even if you don’t feel confident, fake it. Time after time, I have seen a marginal runner act the role of confident competitor, and eventually become one.” —Allan Lawrence, The Self-Coached Runner.
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Mike Ditka: Eating healthy
“So, when it comes to eating healthy, it’s just doing the right thing. And it’s not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it’s something you have to do 25 days a month. Let’s put it that way. ” Mike Ditka
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Calvin Coolidge: Spirit of Christmas
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. Calvin Coolidge
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Benjamin Disraeli: Change
“Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.” —Benjamin Disraeli.
