Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Salman Rushdie: Books
“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.” – Salman Rushdie
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Tom Krause: Courage
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” ~ Tom Krause
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William George Jordan: Contentment
“There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.” ~ William George Jordan.
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Henry David Thoreau: Character
“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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L M Boyd: Cookbooks
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. – L. M. Boyd
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Brendan Behan: Critics
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves. – Brendan Behan.
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George W Bush: Dictator
If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier – so long as I’m the dictator. — George W Bush
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Edward R Murrow: Accomplices
No one can terrorise a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. —Edward R Murrow.
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J. K. Rowling: Courage
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.” —J. K. Rowling.
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Jane Howard: You need one
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” ~ Jane Howard.
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J Robert Oppenheimer: Errors
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. – J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Thomas Jefferson: Taxes for education
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826).
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Thinkers
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/167160315
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William Faulkner: Artists and reviews
The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews. – William Faulkner
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George Eliot: What the world believes about us
“We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.” —George Eliot.
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Dorothy Parker: Curiosity
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker. Embed from Getty Images
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Steven Weinberg: Good people doing evil things
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. – Steven Weinberg. Embed from Getty Images
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William Shakespeare: Physician to my love
“My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.” —William Shakespeare.
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Will Rogers: Politics
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best. – Will Rogers
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Darrin Weinberg: Winning and losing
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. – Darrin Weinberg
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Piet Hein: Naivety
Naive you are / if you believe / life favours those / who aren’t naive. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996). Embed from Getty Images
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Thomas Szasz: Clear thinking
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920). Embed from Getty Images
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Thomas Szasz: God and schizophrenia
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920). Embed from Getty Images
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Tom Wolfe: Cults and religions
A cult is a religion with no political power. -Tom Wolfe, author and journalist (b. 1931). Embed from Getty Images
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Kenneth Tynan: Conformity and corruption
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. -Kenneth Tynan, critic and writer (1927-1980). Embed from Getty Images
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Jim Morrison: You don’t need to be told
You’re too young to be old You don’t need to be told You want to see things as they are You know exactly what I do Everything – Jim Morrison.
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Otto von Bismarck: Tell the truth
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. -Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/107875418
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Winston Churchill: World’s awe
“The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; someone strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention,…
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Billy Joel: Things you might have done
“They showed you a statue and told you to pray/ They built you a temple and locked you away/ But they never told you the price that you pay/ For things you might have done.” —Billy Joel.
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Alfred Whitney Griswold: Better ideas
“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” ~Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Buddha: Streams and rocks
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence.” ~ Buddha.
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J Petit Senn: Less character
“It requires less character to discover the faults of others than it does to tolerate them.” ~ J. Petit Senn
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George Macdonald: To be trusted
”To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” ~ George Macdonald.
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Jazz Dela Salde: My wish for you
“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt,…
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Richard Needham: Everybody and anybody
A sensible man knows you can’t please Everybody. A wise man knows you can’t please Anybody…—Richard Needham
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Peachy Centeno: Give it a try
“It’s impossible.” said pride. “It’s risky.” said experience. “It’s pointless.” said reason. “Give it a try.” whispered the heart. —Peachy Centeno
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Margaret Bonnano: Happily ever after
”It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.” ~ Margaret Bonnano.
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Carl Sagan: Dolphinese
“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English — up to fifty words used in correct context — no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.”—Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996).
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T.S. Eliot: Life,wisdom,knowledge
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965).
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E.B. White: Tyranny begets tyranny
“We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don’t like a Communist.” —E.B. White, writer (1899-1985). Embed from Getty…
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Anatole France: Why are men cruel?
“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.” —Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/171103710
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Charles Evans Hughes: A man’s good company
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -Charles Evans Hughes, jurist (1862-1948). Embed from Getty Images
