Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Cyrus Vance: Against their interests
“You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it’s against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.” —Cyrus Vance
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Viktor Frankl: Last piece of bread
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to…
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David Suzuki: Skepticism
“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.” —David Suzuki.
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Fannie Farmer: Principles of diet
“I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of ones education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.” —Fannie Farmer
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Erich Fromm: Revolutionary
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.” —Erich Fromm.
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Caroline Sheridan Norton: Serve God well
“They serve God well, who serve his creatures.” —Caroline Sheridan Norton
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Kenny Rogers: Being nice
“People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.” —–Kenny Rogers.
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Kenny Rogers: Growing older
“Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.” —Kenny Rogers.
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Kenny Rogers: Trade off
“There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.” —Kenny Rogers.
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Freema Agyeman: Things aren’t getting done quickly
“I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren’t getting done quickly.” —Freema Agyeman
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Dinos Christianopoulos: Better slaughtering conditions
“The sheep have gone on strike / they are demanding better slaughtering conditions.” —Dinos Christianopoulos.
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Carl Jung: Fate
“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate.” – Carl Jung
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Ed Parker: Intelligent man
“The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.” —Ed Parker
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Phil Jackson: Victory is sweet
“Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn’t necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.” – Phil Jackson.
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Grover Cleveland: Government and people
“Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.” —Grover Cleveland.
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Keith O’Brien: Same-sex marriage “Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.” —Keith O’Brien.
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Pico Iyer: Junk food of cable TV
“The best way to feel empty and over-full at once is to devour the junk food of cable TV and other news sources. As with McDonald’s, you go in, enjoy a hearty meal and then wonder, when you come out, why you’re feeling even hungrier and less satisfied than before.” —Pico Iyer.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: Morality and behaviour
“Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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James Madison: Same authority
“Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?” —James Madison.
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Jerry Jeff Walker: Enough
“The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.” —Jerry Jeff Walker
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C S Lewis: To make them worth it
“Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.” —C S Lewis.
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Isaac Asimov: Inhumanity of the computer
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.” — Isaac Asimov
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William Lamb Melbourne: Unpopular to popular
“It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy. . . but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.” —William Lamb Melbourne
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Warren Buffett: Human potential
“There’s always a lot of things wrong with the world. Unfortunately, it’s the only world we’ve got. So we live with it, and we deal with it. But the beauty of it is this system works very well. I don’t have the faintest idea what’s going to happen in business or markets in the next…
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Dan Rockwell: Ego
“Ego protects itself by pushing responsibility on others. Taking responsibility is the courageous decision to take ownership without hiding behind others. Confront excuse-makers. Honor responsibility-takers.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Brian de Haaff: Hundred more
“If one customer is reporting a problem, assume there are a hundred more who did not report it. Never underestimate even the most trivial bug.” — Brian de Haaff.
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Marcus Aurelius: Don’t be all about business
“In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.” —Marcus Aurelius
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Emily Murphy: Courtship
“This is courtship all the world over – the man all tongue, the woman all ears.” —Emily Murphy.
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Grady Booch: Universal truth
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single developer in possession of a good idea must end up spending a tortuous amount of time setting up frameworks, repositories, and a continuous integration pipeline before writing a single line of code.” —Grady Booch.
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Mahmoud Darwish: She’s not a symbol
“Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She’s not a symbol.” —Mahmoud Darwish.
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Richard Steele: Attend to business
“It is the hardest thing in the world to be in love, and yet attend to business. A gentleman asked me this morning, ‘What news from Lisbon?’ and I answered, ‘She is exquisitely handsome.’” —-Richard Steele.
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Edward Albee: Extension of personality
“Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.” —Edward Albee.
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Douglas Adams: Opinions
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.” —Douglas Adams.
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Douglas Adams: Ingenuity of complete fools
“A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” —Douglas Adams.
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Dan Rockwell: Criticism versus coaching
“Criticism is about what was. Coaching is about what could be.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Parker J Palmer: Violence
“Violence is what we do when we don’t know what to do with our suffering.” —Parker J Palmer.
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Kate Sheppard: All that separates
“All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.” —Kate Sheppard.
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Dan Rockwell: Details
“When you ignore details, you give detail-people the impression that details don’t matter. People with strengths you don’t have expand team potential. They are more important to the team than people who share your strengths.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Jim Valvano: He believed in me
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” —Jim Valvano.
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Vita Sackville-West: Poets scorn
“Why should a poet pray thus? poets scorn / The boundaried love of country, being free / Of winds, and alien lands, and distances, / Vagabonds of the compass, wayfarers, / Pilgrims of thought.” —Vita Sackville-West.
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A G Lafley: Sum total
“A company’s value is the sum total of all of its interactions with consumers. Each interaction is an opportunity where the brand promise was either realized or not realized.” — A.G. Lafley.
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Grace Hopper: Fight that
“People have an enormous tendency to resist change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that.” — Grace Hopper.
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Eben Alexander: Spirit
“Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.” —Eben Alexander.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: General principle of antifragility
“The general principle of antifragility: it is much better to do things you cannot explain than explain things you cannot do.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Dan Rockwell: Be bold enough to interrupt
“Momma was wrong when she said don’t interrupt people. If someone is rude enough to hijack your meeting, you should be bold enough to interrupt. Don’t allow talkative participants to blab on and on. (It’s polite to interrupt rude people.)” —Dan Rockwell.
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Charlie Munger: Against human nature
“GEICO to me is very much like Costco. And one of the reasons it’s succeeded is that they really feel a holy duty to have a wonderful product at a very low price. A lot of people talk that game, but very few have it just right down under the body and soul of the…
