Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Bill Cosby: Fatherhood
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby
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Hendrick Ibsen: One deed
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” ~Henrick Ibsen, quoted in “On Being a Parent” Related articles by Zemanta ‘It was as if Ibsen had dropped a bomb’ (telegraph.co.uk)
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Cyril Connolly: Have no public
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ” —Cyril Connolly.
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Joseph Joubert: Echoes
Image via Wikipedia “We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.” —Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824).
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Catherine Pulsifer: Friendship
Image via Wikipedia “Never take friendship for granted, you never know what tomorrow holds.” ~ Catherine Pulsifer. Related articles by Zemanta Friendship with an Opposite Sex (socyberty.com) Farewell, Friend (lifescript.com) The Perils of Friendship (teabreak.pk)
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Natasha Gregson Warner: Parenting
Image via Wikipedia “I thought my mom’s whole purpose was to be my mom. That’s how she made me feel.” ~ Natasha Gregson Wagner
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Adolf Hitler: Leadership
“The art of leadership … consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention…. The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.” – Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), German dictator. Mein Kampf,…
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Jose Ortega Y Gasset: Me and my surroundings
Image via Wikipedia I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. –Jose Ortega Y Gasset, philosopher and essayist (1883-1955) Related articles by Zemanta Ortega y Gasset, Read, and Block on “Left and Right” (stephankinsella.com)
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Guy Debord: Quotations
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. Guy Debord (b. 1931), French situationist philosopher. Panegyric, vol. 1, pt. 1 (1989). _______________________________________________________
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: True innocence
Whoever blushes is already guilty. True innocence is ashamed of nothing. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Related articles by Zemanta A Terrible Ugliness Is Born (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com) Rousseau’s Narcisse, or The Self Admirer (socyberty.com)
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Holy Bible: Faith
Image via Wikipedia “I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” ~ The Holy Bible; Chicken Soup for the Indian Spiritual Soul Related articles by Zemanta Anxious…
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Hal Borland: Trees and grass
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. –Hal Borland, journalist (1900-1978)
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G M Trevelyan: Education
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. – GM Trevelyan, British historian.
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Paulo Coelho: Memories
Image via Wikipedia “Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Michel de Montaigne: Cast in the same mold
“The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.” —-Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592).
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Robert Redford: Environment
Image via Wikipedia “I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?” ~ Robert Redford.
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Andy Warhol: Fantasy love
Image via Wikipedia Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. – Andy Warhol. Related articles by Zemanta 16 Minutes of Fame (jackofallblogs.com) Wayward Love! (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com) A tale of two castles (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com) The Worth of Warhol (nybooks.com)
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Al Gore: Airplane travel
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. – Al Gore. Embed from Getty Images
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Charles Buxton: Insult and injury
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult. –Charles Buxton, brewer, philanthropist, writer, and politician (1823-1871) Related articles by Zemanta Integrity (linusfernandes.com) A Devastating Critique (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com) ‘You are neither forgiven nor forgotten, Mary Hanafin’ (politics.ie)
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Lucius Seneca: Poverty of desires
“The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.” —Lucius Seneca, philosopher.
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Oscar Wilde: Compliments
“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” —Oscar Wilde.
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Frederick Saunders: Pride
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. -Frederick Saunders, librarian and essayist (1807-1902)
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Ambrose Bierce: Politics
Image via Wikipedia “Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” —Ambrose Bierce.
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Jeremy Irons: Memories and dreams
“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.” – Jeremy Irons, British actor. Related articles by Zemanta Letters: Meryl Streep: Transcending the Screen (nytimes.com) Casual cruelties (newstatesman.com)
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Christian Nestell Bovee: Anxiety and fear
Image via Wikipedia “There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and the other half discreditable. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee; Chicken Soup for the Soul: Indian Women.
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Cherokee proverb: Yesterday
“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” ~Cherokee Proverb, quoted in “Empty Nesters”
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Abraham Lincoln: Life
“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
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Lord Chesterfield: Learning
“Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o’clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.” —Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (1694-1773). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3425668
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Theodore Roosevelt: Moment Of Decision
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.~ Theodore Roosevelt; from our forthcoming title “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Indian Teachers”
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Jan Glidewell: Embrace the present
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” ~Jan Glidewell, quoted in “Empty Nesters”
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Marcel Proust: Real voyage of discovery
Image by Kenny Teo (buy me a pro account any??) via Flickr “The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ~Marcel Proust, quoted in “Empty Nesters”
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John Donne: Reason, faith and divinity
Reason is our souls left hand, Faith her right, / By these we reach divinity – John Donne Reason is our souls left hand, Faith her right, / By these we reach divinity – John Donne
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Integrity
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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Anonymous: Blesssed are the flexible
“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” ~Anonymous, quoted in “Empty Nesters”
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Aldous Huxley: Propaganda
Image via Wikipedia “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” —Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
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John Dewey: Starting point to another
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” ~John Dewey, quoted in “My Resolution”
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Francis Bacon: Justice
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. — Francis Bacon.
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Joan Didion: Self-respect
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.” ~Joan Didion
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Marcia Weider: Precious moments
“Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.” ~Marcia Weider, quoted in “Count Your Blessings”.
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David Brin: Power
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by things other than power. – David Brin.
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Vincent van Gogh: Conscience
Conscience is a man’s compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one’s course by it, one must still try to follow its direction. -Vincent van Gogh, painter (1853-1890)
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Sheila Murray Bethel: Identify yourself
“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in, and where you want to go.” ~Sheila Murray Bethel, quoted in “Older & Wiser”
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Paulo Coelho: Experience
We all need to understand that experience is agony and ecstasy at the same time. Pain and joy holding hands. And pain is not suffering, but part of the Good Fight we must fight in the name of our dreams. – Paulo Coelho.
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Leo Longanesi: Interpreted like dreams
Memories are interpreted like dreams. -Leo Longanesi, journalist and editor (1905-1957) Related articles by Zemanta The History of Beauty (hbswk.hbs.edu) Why India’s ruling elite loves China (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
