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Geoffrey Canada: Neutralize and cauterize
“Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize — and sometimes you have to cauterize — the ones who really are against change. They’re the kind of person who, if you tell them its raining outside, they’ll fight you tooth and nail.” —Geoffrey Canada.
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Jill Wagner: No type
“I don’t have a type. I’ve dated so many different types, different personalities, different looks — from athletic to very non-athletic. The only thing I have to have is someone who is really motivated in life and challenges me. If I don’t have that, I get bored.” —Jill Wagner.
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Nayyirah Waheed: Attention
“i don’t pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.” ― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt.
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Rush Limbaugh: Impossible to not offend
“It’s impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you’re gonna offend people.” —Rush Limbaugh.
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Kirstie Alley: No matter what religion you are
“When push comes to shove, it ain’t the science that’s going to lift you up – it’s the belief, the spiritual side of life, that’s going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.” —Kirstie Alley.
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Nayyirah Waheed: Love that will be ready
“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You…
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Catherine Deneuve: Not a macho attack
“Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly, is not—nor is being gentlemanly a macho attack.” —Catherine Deneuve.
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Warren Buffett: Accounting
“Accounting is but an aid to business thinking, not a substitute for it.” – Warren Buffett .
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Charlie Munger: Economics is not physics
“[The economics profession] has been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn’t work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject, and a lot of overconfidence has been removed from the economics profession over the last 20 years. They’ve been really surprised.” – Charlie…
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Rahul Dravid: Ever
No dream is ever chased alone. —Rahul Dravid
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Alexander Hamilton: No agency in planning it
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. —Alexander Hamilton.
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Nayyirah Waheed: Desire
“Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind.” ― Nayyirah Waheed.
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Hrithik Roshan: How bad I can be
“I am glad I have the intelligence to understand what is happening to me. If I allow myself to get affected by all this hype, I’ll stunt my growth as an actor and be damned for life. I know that I still have a long way to go before I can even aspire to equal…
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David Robinson: Write a blog post
“When you’ve written the same code 3 times, write a function When you’ve given the same in-person advice 3 times, write a blog post” — David Robinson (@drob) November 9, 2017.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Not born a woman
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. —Simone de Beauvoir.
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John Acton: Minorities
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. —John Acton.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Exceedingly good advice
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Truth rewarded me
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. -Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)
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Simone de Beauvoir: Profitable
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Overcome yourself
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Mohnish Pabrai: Promised land
“There’s a saying…’Take a simple idea and take it seriously.’ And I think that’s a really important thing to keep in mind. And I think when you look at lots and lots of extremely successful people right at the pinnacle of their careers, when you break it down, that quote is at the epicenter of…
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Momina Mustehsan: Compared to a maid
“Being compared to a maid is not insulting to me, it’s an honour, because you’re comparing me to a woman who goes out to work and earn a living.” —Momina Mustehsan, Pakistani singing sensation.
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Stephen Hawking: Three things to remember
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away. —Stephen Hawking.
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Elvis Presley: Don’t go with them
When things go wrong, don’t go with them. —Elvis Presley.
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Elvis Presley: Truth
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” —Elvis Presley.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Respect
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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David Carr: Résumé
“No one is going to give a damn about your résume; they want to see what you’ve made with your own little fingers.” —David Carr.
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Nicolas Cage: Off-kilter sense of humor
“I’ll speak for myself, but there’s a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.” —Nicolas Cage.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Beauty
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Tavi Gevinson: Procrastination
“The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.” —Tavi Gevinson.
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Om Puri: Parallel cinema
“Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.” —Om Puri.
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Rowan Atkinson: Freedom
“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.” —Rowan Atkinson.
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Charlie Munger: Don’t listen
“When any person offers you a chance to earn lots of money without risk, don’t listen to the rest of their sentence. Follow this and you’ll save yourself a lot of misery.” —Charlie Munger.
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Rowan Atkinson: Outlawing of insult
“The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.” —Rowan Atkinson.
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Sheryl Sandberg: Careers
“Careers are a jungle gym,not a ladder.” —Sheryl Sandberg.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Mystery of human existence
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Marilyn Manson: Sin-and-repent cycle
“All the seven deadly sins are man’s true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you’re made to feel guilty for being human, then you’re going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can’t escape from.” —Marilyn Manson.
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Pierre Bourdieu: Entirely natural
“Every established order tends to make its own entirely arbitrary system seem entirely natural.” — Pierre Bourdieu.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Something more than intelligence
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Max Eastman: Neutrality
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.” —Max Eastman, journalist and poet (4 Jan 1883-1969) .
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Lee Kuan Yew: History
“History does not repeat itself in the same way each time, but certain trends and consequences are constants. If you do not know history, you think short term. If you know history, you think medium and long term.” – Lee Kuan Yew.
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Om Puri: Theatre
“In theatre, you’ve got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven’t, you know you’ve almost lost them.” —Om Puri.
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Charlyne Yi: Being cynical
“Being cynical isn’t necessarily being negative or bitter. It’s a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it’s not and getting their heart broken.” —Charlyne Yi.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Mankind
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Chinese Proverb: Running away
“Of all the 36 alternatives, running away is best.” —Chinese Proverb.
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Mel Gibson: Number one fear
“You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it’s public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that’s what I’ve been through.” —Mel Gibson.
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Daniel Kahneman: Much too seriously
“We take the reasons that people give for their actions and beliefs, and our own reasons for our actions and beliefs, much too seriously.” -Daniel Kahneman.
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Simon Sinek: Leading
“Leading is not the same as being a leader. Leading means others are willing to follow, not because they have to, but because they want to.” —Simon Sinek.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Tea
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Isaac Asimov: Cult of ignorance
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”-Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer…
