Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Dr. B R Ambedkar: Great versus eminent
“A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be a servant of society.” —Dr. B R Ambedkar.
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Dr. B R Ambedkar: Great rather than long
“Life should be great rather than long.” —Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Dr. B R Ambedkar: Liberty, equality and fraternity
“I like the religion that that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.” —Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Simon Sinek: Feel good
“It feels good to help people. So get out there and feel good.” —Simon Sinek.
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Arnold J Toynbee: Blur the line
“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” —Arnold J. Toynbee.
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Dr. B R Ambedkar: Caste system
“Caste system is not merely a division of labour. It is also a division of labourers.” —Dr B. R. Ambedkar.
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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Matter of principles
“Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.” —Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Noam Chomsky: Free speech
“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.” — Noam Chomsky.
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Thomas Jefferson: Artificial aristocracy
“There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.” -Thomas Jefferson.
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Simon Sinek: Beware those who speak a lot
“Beware those who speak a lot but say little.” —Simon Sinek.
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D L Moody: True faith
“You can’t have true faith without works no more than you can have fire without heat.” —D L Moody.
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Thomas Jefferson: Count to one hundred
“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.” —Thomas Jefferson.
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Garry Tan: Learn or earn
“At every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both is best. But if it’s neither, quit.” —Garry Tan.
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Claire Danes: Extreme self-doubt
“It’s very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it’s fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.” —Claire Danes.
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Charles Evans Hughes: Hard work
“I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.” —Charles Evans Hughes.
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Prince Philip: Just as ignorant
“Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.” —Prince Philip.
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Steven Seagal: Lot of inaccuracies out there
“You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you’ve got a lot of inaccuracies out there.” —Steven Seagal.
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Ellen Ullman: On top of ruins
“We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” —Ellen Ullman.
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Charles Baudelaire: Wings in the way
“The poet is a kinsman in the clouds / Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; / But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, / He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.” —-Charles Baudelaire.
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Simon Sinek: ‘Different’ is much more interesting
‘Normal is what the majority does, which is why “different” is so much more interesting.’ —Simon Sinek.
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Joe Armstrong: Make it beautiful
“Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. 90 percent of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. So really, just make it beautiful!” – Joe Armstrong.
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William Ellery Channing: Intercourse with superior minds
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds.” —-William Ellery Channing.
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Shane A Parrish: Long term results
“The biggest generator of long term results is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them.” —Shane A Parrish.
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D L Moody: God doesn’t want that kind of religion
“It seems to me that there are a great many people who want just religion enough to make them respectable, and keep them in society. I tell you God doesn’t want that kind of religion.” —D L Moody.
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John Carmack: Just a function
“Sometimes the elegant implementation is a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.” – John Carmack.
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Russell Crowe: Living in Australia
“There’s an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine’s free, and the harbour’s free, and the beach is free.” —Russell Crowe.
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Simon Sinek: Give things a try
“If we don’t give things a try, nothing will ever get off the ground.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nicolas de Chamfort: Chameleon-like
“We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.” —Nicolas de Chamfort.
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Simon Sinek: Reality and perception
“If perception is reality, then it follows that reality is perception. Which makes a good case for optimism.” —Simon Sinek.
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Booker T Washington: Staying down with him
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.” —-Booker T. Washington.
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Colin Powell: ‘You’d mention it’
“Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.’” —Colin Powell.
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Andrei Tarkovsky: World is not perfect
“An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply…
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Charles Petzold: Owning a computer
“Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.” —Charles Petzold.
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Edward Everett Hale: Wise anger
“Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.” —Edward Everett Hale.
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Travis View: Commenting on the internet
“It was always assumed that if you were commenting on the internet, your handle was not your real name.” —Logan Strain aka Travis View.
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Kenneth Tynan: At what point does conformity become 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.
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Emile Zola: Poet and craftsman
“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.” —Emile Zola.
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Simon Sinek: Generosity
“Generosity is doing something for someone else and expecting nothing in return.” —Simon Sinek.
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Anne McCaffrey: Make no judgments
“Make no judgments where you have no compassion.” —Anne McCaffrey.
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Otto von Bismarck: Write diplomatically
“Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.” —Otto von Bismarck.
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Cesar Chavez: Vegetarian
“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.” —Cesar Chavez.
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Christopher Walken: Public image
“You know, there’s nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you’re doing, yourself, if you figure you’re doing the right thing.” —Christopher Walken.
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Simon Sinek: Happiness and fulfillment
“Happiness comes from WHAT we do. Fulfillment comes from WHY we do it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sean O’Casey: Temper
“It’s my rule never to lose my temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.” —-Sean O’Casey.
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Vincent Van Gogh: Love many things
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” —Vincent Van Gogh.
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Simon Sinek: Sharing takes courage
“Selfish is easy. It’s sharing that takes courage.” —Simon Sinek.
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Eric Idle: Amount of comedy permitted
“At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This…
