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Anushka Sharma: Ban mentality
“We are breeding a ban mentality…irritating people to the degree that it’s suffocating them.” ~Anushka Sharma.
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Henry Adams: Teaching
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” —Henry Adams, historian and teacher (16 Feb 1838-1918).
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Constantin Brancusi: Architecture
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” —Constantin Brancusi, sculptor (19 Feb 1876-1957).
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Margaret Halsey: Education
“In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.” —#MargaretHalsey, novelist (13 Feb 1910-1997).
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George T. Angell: Roots
I’m sometimes asked “Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?” I answer: “I am working at the roots.” -George T. Angell, reformer (5 Jun 1823-1909).
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Ogden Nash: Babies
“Everybody who has a baby thinks everybody who hasn’t a baby ought to have a baby.” ~Ogden Nash.
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Munshi Premchand: Trust and love
“Trust is the first step to love. ” —Munshi Premchand, novelist and poet (31 Jul 1880-1936) .
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APJ Abdul Kalam: Prosperous and safe India
“We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India.” ~APJ Abdul Kalam.
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Emile Chartier: Dangerous
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it’s the only one you have. ” —Emile Chartier, philosopher (3 Mar 1868-1951).
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APJ Abdul Kalam: Way to progress
“Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action converts adversity into prosperity.” ~APJ Abdul Kalam.
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EM Forster: Prosaic passion
“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted…Live in fragments no more.” —EM Forster.
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Henry W Beecher: Thankful heart
“The unthankful heart … discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!” ~Henry W Beecher.
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Marcel Duchamp: Own taste
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” —Marcel Duchamp, artist (28 Jul 1887-1968).
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Henry David Thoreau: Disobedience
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” —Henry David Thoreau.
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Fred Allen: Lover's lane
“The last time I saw him, he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand.” ~Fred Allen.
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William Wiley: All the time
“I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you’ll need right up to the day you die.” —William Wiley, artist (b. 1937).
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Deng Xiaoping: Cats and mice
“It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white; what matters is how well it catches mice.” ~Deng Xiaoping. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/107421871
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Edgar Allan Poe: Eloquent enthusiasm
“Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.” ~Edgar Allan Poe.
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George Gamow: Making of man
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!” —George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist (4 Mar 1904-1968).
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Ayn Rand: Civilization
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public.” ~Ayn Rand.
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Frederic Bastiat: Borders
“When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.” ~Frederic Bastiat.
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Jose Mourinho: Competitive, Aggressive, Consumive, Selfish
“The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.” ~Jose Mourinho.
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Imelda Marcos: Beauty and garbage
“People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But who wants to be surrounded by garbage?” ~Imelda Marcos.
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Jack Welch: Competitive advantage
“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” ~Jack Welch.
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Howard Jacobson: Superficial change
“That was what was cruel about superficial change. It exposed what could never change.” ~Howard Jacobson.
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Edgar Quinet: Time
“Time is the fairest and toughest judge.” —Edgar Quinet, historian (17 Feb 1803-1875).
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Dr. Seuss: You
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” —Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (2 Mar 1904-1991).
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Paulo Coelho: Memories
“Memories are like salt: the right amount brings out the flavor in food, too much ruins it.” ~Paulo Coelho.
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William Beveridge: Defender of privilege
“Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.” —William Beveridge, economist and reformer (5 Mar 1879-1963).
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Baltasar Gracián: Competition
“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.” ― Baltasar Gracián.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti: Angel in the marble
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” —Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (6 Mar 1475-1564).
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Jiddu Krishnamurti: Real learning
“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti.
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Isaac Disraeli: Language
“While language is forming, writers are applauded for extending its limits; when established, for restricting themselves to them.” —Isaac Disraeli, writer (1766-1848).
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Omar Sharif: Kissing
“When I kiss a woman, I never ask her nationality or religion.” ~Omar Sharif.
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Louis XIV: Reconciliation
“I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.” ~Louis XIV.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Dictionary
“The raw material of possible poems and histories.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet, on dictionary (1803-1882).
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Milton Berle: Experience
“Experience is what you have after you’ve forgotten her name.” ~Milton Berle.
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Charles Kingsley: Yesterday's sneer, yesterday's frown
“The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown can never come over again.” ~Charles Kingsley.
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Jean Giraudoux: Mediocre
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.” ~Jean Giraudoux.
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Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire: Greatness of the soul
“Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.” —Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, preacher, journalist, and activist (1802-1861).
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Reporters Without Borders: Offence of opinion
“Any prison sentence for an offence of opinion is unacceptable, even in cases of insult or defamation.” ~Reporters without Borders.
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Daphne du Maurier: Simplicity
“How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.” —Daphne du Maurier, novelist (13 May 1907-1989).
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John Constable: Beautiful
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, — light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. ” —John Constable, painter (11 Jun 1776-1837) .
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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, author and journalist (14 May 1900-1978) .
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Shirley Maclaine: Friends and strangers
“The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” ~Shirley Maclaine.
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Samuel Smiles: Hope
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burdens behind us.” — Samuel Smiles, writer.
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David Rakoff: Bad person
“Not being funny does not make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does.” ~David Rakoff.
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E.O. Wilson: Ideal scientist
“The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.” —E.O. Wilson, biologist (b. 10 Jun 1929).
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David Wright: Underdog
“People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.” ~David Wright.
