Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Wrong-doer
“A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.” —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
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Jodie Foster: Cruelty
“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it’s not acceptable. ” –—Jodie Foster
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George Bernard Shaw: What God hath joined together…
“What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Christian Nestell Bovee: Saints
“Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ” —Christian Nestell Bovee.
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Jerome K. Jerome: Idling and working
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. –Jerome K. Jerome, humorist and…
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Confucius: Superior man
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.” —Confucius.
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Donald G. Smith: Be a pest
“If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it.” —Donald G. Smith
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Arabic proverb: Wise man and idiot
“The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears.” Arabic Proverb.
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Alexander Pope: Love and hate
“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. ” —Alexander Pope.
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Voltaire: Who rules?
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” —Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778).
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Josh Cox: Be positive
“Be positive, ignore the critic, follow your heart, invest in your passions, believe in your dreams & get busy making them reality.” —Josh Cox, U.S. 50-K record holder.
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Simon Campbell: Stick to your knitting
“Stick to your knitting (what you’re good at), don’t compromise, and don’t suffer fools.” —Simon Campbell.
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William Glasser: Misery, a choice
“It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice. ” William Glasser
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Marissa Mayer: Google design
“Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our way of approaching it closed. It’s simple, it’s elegant, you can slip it in your pocket, but it’s got the great doodad when you need it. A lot of our competitors are like a Swiss Army knife open…
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David Grayson: Great burden
“The sense of wishing to be known only for what one really is is like putting on an old, easy, comfortable garment. You are no longer afraid of anybody or anything. You say to yourself, ‘Here I am — just so ugly, dull, poor, beautiful, rich, interesting, amusing, ridiculous — take me or leave me.’…
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Robert Stevenson: End of life
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”— Robert Lous Stevenson.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Mad destruction
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wise thoughts
“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Edward De Bono: Bar to new ideas
“The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. ” —Edward De Bono.
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Steven Brust: Literature
“All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what’s cool. ” —Steven Brust
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Gift of penetration
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.” —Niccolo Machiavelli
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Christopher Columbus: Where's the shore?
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Richard Dawkins: Completely right or completely wrong
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. –Richard Dawkins, biologist and author (b. 1941) Related articles Richard Dawkins Explores the Meaning of Life as an Atheist(patheos.com) Richard Dawkins’s Blind…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Angry minute
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Christopher McDougall: Born to run
“The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other but to be with each other.” —Christopher McDougall, “Born to Run”.
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Thucydides: Men
“Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. ” —Thucydides.
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Percy B. Shelley: Love repulsed
“Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused – but it returneth.” —Percy B Shelley.
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Warren Farrell: Men and women
“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. ” —Warren Farrell.
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Truman Capote: Writing
“Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. ” —Truman Capote.
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Mary Kay Ash: Honesty
“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. ”—Mary Kay Ash.
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Whoopi Goldberg: Normality
“Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. ” —Whoopi Goldberg
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Amos Bronson Alcott: Observation and experience
“Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. ” —Amos Bronson Alcott.
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Adam Smith:Virtue
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ” —Adam Smith Related articles Adam Smith: “wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue”(lifeondoverbeach.wordpress.com)
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Milan Kundera:Vertigo
“Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” — Milan…
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Lord Byron: Dreams
“And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.” — Lord Byron Related articles Discovered: Lord Byron’s Copy of Frankenstein Signed by Mary Shelley(openculture.com)…
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Wendell Johnson: Always and never
“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ” —Wendell Johnson.
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Theodore Hesburgh: Leadership
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. ” —Theodore Hesburgh Related articles Quotes about Leadership(lugenfamilyoffice.com) Visionary Leadership(waltbrite.wordpress.com) 20 Great Leadership Quotes(jamalwhyte.wordpress.com)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Good story
“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon Related articles The Real Dead Poets Society: How America Buries Its Famous Writers(theatlantic.com) F. Scott Fitzgerald: 10 quotes on his birthday(csmonitor.com) A Letter And A Thought(urbangallivant.wordpress.com) F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s hate mail response still echoes today(holykaw.alltop.com)
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Ernest Dimnet:Judgment
“Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. ” —Ernest Dimnet
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Kate Bush: Quotes
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John Gay:Dependence
“There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one’s self. ” —John Gay
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Andre Maurois: Acts, habits and destiny
“If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. ” —Andre Maurois
