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Tex Cobb: Boxing and tennis
Embed from Getty Images “If you screw up in tennis, it’s 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it’s your ass, darling!” ~Tex Cobb.
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Robin Williams: Human Spirit
“The human spirit is more powerful than any drug, and that is what needs to be nourished with work, play, friendship and family. These are the things that matter.” ~Robin Williams. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/181822184
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Bhagat Singh: Not a terrorist
‘Apparently, I’ve acted like a terrorist. But I’m not a terrorist.’ Bhagat Singh.
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Robin Williams: What's right
“What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.” ~Robin Williams. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/85364535
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Bal Gangadhar Tilak: Birthright
“Swaraj Mera Janamsiddha adhikar hai, aur main ise laker rahoonga” (Freedom is my birthright and I shall have it.) ~Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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Robin Williams: Alcoholism
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/133568938 “Being a functioning alcoholic is like being a paraplegic lap dancer—you can do it, just not as well as the others, really.” ~Robin Williams.
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Pranab Mukherjee: Jammu and Kashmir
“Let Jammu & Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India.” ~Pranab Mukherjee.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. जब तक गलती करने की स्वतंत्रता ना हो तब तक स्वतंत्रता का कोई अर्थ नहीं है. Mahatma Gandhi महात्मा गाँधी Source: Achikhabar.com Embed from Getty Images
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Subhash Chandra Bose: Give me blood, I'll give you freedom
“तुम मुझे खून दो, मैं तुम्हे आज़ादी दूंगा.” ~सुभाष चन्द्र बोस.
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Edward Hopper: Painting words
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. “ —Edward Hopper, painter (1882-1967). Embed from Getty Images
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James Randi: Facts and beliefs
“No amount of belief makes something a fact. ” —-James Randi, magician and skeptic (b. 1928).
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Alfred Hitchcock: Police
“I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.” ~Alfred Hitchcock. Embed from Getty Images
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Denis Waitley: Self-talk
“Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. ” ~Denis Waitley.
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Robin Williams: Divorce
“Ah, yes, divorce…from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.” ~Robin Williams. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/133568938
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Robin Williams: Death
“Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.’” ~Robin Williams. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/85364535
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Vidya Balan: Perfection
“Somewhere I stopped wanting to be perfect and that’s when I began to accept myself just the way I am. I cannot expect the world to accept me if I am not accepting of myself.” ~Vidya Balan. Embed from Getty Images
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Bruce Lee: Thinking
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” ~Bruce Lee.
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Erik Weihenmayer: Trapped
“”People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.”” Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climber
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Bruce Lee: Waste not time
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” —Bruce Lee.
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Robin Williams: English policemen
“In England, if you commit a crime, the police don’t have a gun and you don’t have a gun. If you commit a crime. the police will say, “Stop, or I’ll stay stop again.” ~Robin Williams.
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Robin Williams: Spark of madness
“You’re only given one spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” ~Robin Williams.
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George Carlin: Weather forecast
“Weather forecast for tonight: dark. ” George Carlin
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Edmund Hillary: Conquer…
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Related articles Sir Edmund Hillary (pavloskapralos.wordpress.com) Day 7 (Part II) – Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Museum, Aoraki Mount Cook, New Zealand. (alwaystravelicious.com) “The greatest mountain we need to climb lies in our our own minds”. It’s not…
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Miguel De Cervantes: Short sentences, long experiences
Embed from Getty Images “Short sentences drawn from long experiences.” ~Cervantes
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George Bernard Shaw: Spice
“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.” ~George Bernard Shaw. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/463972491
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Priyanka Chopra: Once that bell rings…
“Once that bell rings, you’re on your own—just you and your belief. It’s hard to defend when someone’s constantly beating you black and blue. And I’m talking about all kinds of knocks—physical, mental and emotional.” ~Priyanka Chopra taking about “Lessons From The Ring” absorbed while enacting the title role “Mary Kom.”
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Paul Samuelson: Investing
“Investing should be dull…like watching watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take some money that you are happy to lose and go to Las Vegas.” ~Paul Samuelson. Embed from Getty Images
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Zachary Scott: Regret
“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do. ” ~Zachary Scott. Embed from Getty Images
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George Bernard Shaw: Critic
“A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.” ~George Bernard Shaw http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/186641212
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Ralph W. Sockman: Humility
“True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. ” ~Ralph W. Sockman
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Lenny Bruce: Dirty
“You can’t do anything with anybody’s body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person — you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.” —Lenny Bruce, comedian and social critic (1925-1966) Embed from Getty Images
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Henry Taylor: Conscience
“Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. ” ~Henry Taylor Embed from Getty Images
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J K Rowling: Voices
“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.” ~J K Rowling. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/98263831
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Anonymous: Slights
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/126154712 “If slighted, slight the slight, and love the slighter.” ~Anonymous http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/126161597
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John Vanbrugh: Slighted woman
A slighted woman knows no bounds. ~John Vanbrugh Embed from Getty Images
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Antipathy
“Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it – to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Hosea Ballou: Patient inquiry
“Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.” Hosea Ballou
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Mickey Rooney: Marriage licence
“I’m the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern. ” —Mickey Rooney Embed from Getty Images
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Harvey Fierstein: Define yourself
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ~Harvey Fierstein Embed from Getty Images
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Bernard Levin: Electoral decisions
“Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. ” Bernard Levin
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William Bennet Munro: Resentment, not appreciation
“People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.” ~William Bennet Munro
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Unknown: Mud and stars
Embed from Getty Images “Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.” ~Unknown.
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Jonathan Swift: Writer's privilege
“There are certain common Privileges of a Writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no Reason to doubt; Particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is coucht underneath.” ~Jonathan Swift.
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Thomas Henry Huxley: Great advances
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. “ —Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (1825-1895) Embed from Getty Images
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Perfection
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. “ —Antoine de Saint-Exupery Embed from Getty Images
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M H Mahon: Daily exercise
“Two hours’ daily exercise… will be enough to keep a hack fit for his work.” ~M H Mahon.
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J D Salinger: Paranoia
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” ~J D Salinger.
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George Burns: One hundred
Embed from Getty Images “If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.” ~George Burns.
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John Steinbeck: Corroboration
“No one wants advice—only corroboration.” ~John Steinbeck.
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Tallulah Bankhead: Night watchman
“It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work-the night watchman.” –Tallulah Bankhead Embed from Getty Images
