Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Discomfort
“They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don’t want people to think they know about it. ” —Sue Johannson
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Mao Tse-Tung: Tactically
“Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. ” —Mao Tse-Tung Related articles Will China Experience a Military Coup? (socyberty.com) Mao tactic (everydayredflags.wordpress.com) Revolution (reacciona2011.wordpress.com) ‘The Chairman and I’ Photographic Documentary Takes Mao Tse-Tung on Long March Through China for 60th Anniversary of PRC on 1 October (prweb.com) Moving From Tactical to Strategic…
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Kelly LeBrock: Be with yourself
“If you can’t be with yourself, you’ll never learn to be with anyone else. ” —Kelly LeBrock Embed from Getty Images
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Franklin D Roosevelt: Competition and cooperation
“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. ” —Franklin D Roosevelt.
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Love, life and behaviour
You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave. –Billie Holiday, jazz singer and songwriter (1915-1959)
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Muhammad Ali: Risk
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” —Muhammad Ali.
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William James: As you think, so shall you be
“The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.” —William James.
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St. Augustine: Seek the truth
“Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it…
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Albert Schweitzer: Colour-blind
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight… The truly wise person is colour-blind.” —Albert Schweitzer.
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Henri Bergson: Cure for vanity
“The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.”—Henri Bergson.
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Ray Bradbury: Burnt books
“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?” “That’s against the law!” “Oh. Of course.” -Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (1920-2012).
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Never strong enough
“You are never strong enough that you don’t need help. ” —Cesar Chavez Related articles César Chávez Birthday Celebration in Stockton (bwnews.us) Chavez breakfast (denislabine.wordpress.com)
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Running
Running is a sanctuary for me. It keeps me centered. I can’t take my cell phone or my computer. I can be unavailable and completely selfish. Tanna Frederick, Stage and film actress Related articles Tanna Frederick set for fest honor (variety.com) Film actress visits addicts’ rehab centre (nation.com.pk)
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Jack Buck: Way Things Turn Out
“Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.” —Jack Buck.
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Richard M. Nixon: A good Pope
I would have made a good Pope. –Richard M. Nixon, 37th president of US (1913-1994).
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Jacqueline Schiff: Short temper,long walk
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. —Jacqueline Schiff Related articles March 15 – I Choose To Control My Temper (lelandfleming.wordpress.com) Anger and Temper and How Do We Avoid It? (boyalasco.wordpress.com) Whole Dude – Whole Temperance (wholedude.com) Be Slow to Anger (momsfirstscreenn.wordpress.com) Anger and Temper and How Do We Avoid It?…
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Edward Everett: Education
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ” —Edward Everett.
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Alexander Walker: Man and woman
“Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. ” —Alexander Walker
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Daniel J. Boorstin: Illusion of knowledge
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. –Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1914-2004). Related articles Quote of the moment, Daniel Boorstin channels Kin Hubbard: Pretension to knowledge more dangerous than ignorance (timpanogos.wordpress.com) Illusion and Reality (shantideva.me)…
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Benjamin Disraeli: Write a book
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.—Benjamin Disraeli.
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Power
“Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. ” —Katharine Graham
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W Somerset Maugham: Dignity
“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. ” —W Somerset Maugham.
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Unknown: Discipline
“Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” —Unknown.
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Michel De Montaigne: Search…
“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ” —Michel De Montaigne.
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Writing
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. —Jules Renard
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Education
Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away.” —George Lorimer
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Chester W. Nimitz: Paint and powder
“A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. ” —Chester W. Nimitz.
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George S Patton: Ingenuity
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ” —George S Patton. Related articles WAS GENERAL PATTON MURDERED? ~ “…At the end of the war Patton was in fact the highest ranking officer in the US Military. In peacetime the Armed Forces would…
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Petrarch: Love life
“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.” —Petrarch.
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Andrew Carnegie: Eggs in one basket
“Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.” —Andrew Carnegie. Related articles Enriching others with Andrew Carnegie [Garry Pickles] (ecademy.com)
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Thomas S Monson: Faith
“Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people. ” Thomas S Monson
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Jeff Jarvis: Blogging
“The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.” —Jeff Jarvis.
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Windows versus mirrors
“I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you. ” —Bill Withers
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Lillian Hellman: Change
“People change and forget to tell each other.” —Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984).
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Jose Bergamin: Just one thing
“Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter. ” —Jose Bergamin.
