Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Dave Blood: Perception
“You can’t control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. ” —Dave Blood
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Kabir: Scourers
“Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.” ― Kabir
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Blaise Pascal: The long and short of it
“I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” —Blaise Pascal.
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St. François de Sales: Colored devotion
“We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to be leading a very devout life, so long as he fasts rigorously, although the while his heart is full of bitterness;–and while he will not moisten his lips with wine, perhaps not even…
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William Hurt: Heroes and libraries
“Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. ” —William Hurt
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Robert Heller: Gut feeling
“Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough. ” Robert Heller
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Henry Ward Beecher: Friendly cemetery
“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. ” —Henry Ward Beecher
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Mark Twain: Enemy and friend
“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you” —Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910).
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Richard Bach: Family
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. ”Richard Bach
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Mohsen Makhmalba: Pretense and me
“I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me. ” —Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
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David Wu: Why stick your neck out?
“Why stick your neck out if you don’t have to? If you’re right nobody will remember and if you’re wrong people will ask a lot of questions.” David Wu Related articles Wu-Hoo! (2)(maxredline.typepad.com) Wu-Who?(maxredline.typepad.com) Wu’s Yer Daddy?(maxredline.typepad.com) Miss Wu For Nordstrom Is Available (For Preorder!) – Our Picks Here(fabsugar.com)
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Ani Difranco: Feminist or misogynist
“Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is not box marked ‘other’.” —Ani Difranco.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Tale-bearers and tale-makers
“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.” ― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal
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Harry Crews: Scars
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. –Harry Crews, novelist and playwright (b. 1935) Related articles How Much Can People Change?(learning.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Max Nordau: Civilization
“Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles… respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law… or, in a word justice. ” —Max Nordau
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Criss Jami: Slander
“The only thing more frustrating than slanderers are those foolish enough to listen to them.” ― Criss Jami.
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Kurt Vonnegut: Laughter and tears
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ” —Kurt Vonnegut.
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Wendell Johnson: Waiting for Moses
“While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk. ” —Wendell Johnson.
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Robert Anthony: Problems and solutions
“If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. ” —Robert Anthony.
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William Shakespeare: Rumour
“Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.” ― William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2.
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John Henry Newman: Facts
“Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. ” John Henry Newman
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Florence King: Wit and women
“The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ” Florence King
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Criss Jami: Slander
“What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt…
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David Gilmour: Falling in love
“It’s not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.” —David Gilmour.
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Criss Jami: Popularity and loneliness
“How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and…
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Oprah Winfrey: New Year
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey, American Media Proprietor.
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Mildred Witte Stouven: Porcelain
“A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.” —Mildred Witte Stouven.
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Mary Wortley Montagu: Romantic novels
“Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ” Mary Wortley Montagu
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Benjamin Franklin: New Year
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin, Author, Inventor and Diplomat.
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Mary Jo Asmus: Leadership
[A]s a leader, it is your responsibility to find passion in the work you do.” –Mary Jo Asmus, executive coach, writing at SmartBlog on Leadership
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G.K. Chesterton: New Year
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” —G.K. Chesterton, English Writer.
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Chinese proverb: The playing triad
“If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” –Chinese proverb.
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Nayeley Saldana: People mess up
“People mess up. At the time they won’t notice or even care of what you feel and what you do for them. They will walk all over you and shove your face into the ground. Once they realize what they’ve done, its up to you to choose if they deserve the same or not. But…
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Bertrand Russell: Cocksureness and doubt
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ” —Bertrand Russell.
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G.K. Chesterton: New Year
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts…
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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.
