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Karl Popper: Intolerance
“In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.” — Karl Popper.
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Tim O’Brien: Fiction
“That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.” —Tim O’Brien.
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Elie Wiesel: Illegal
“No human being is illegal.” —Elie Wiesel.
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Jalal ud-Din Tumi: Buy bewilderment
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” —Jalal ud-Din Rumi.
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Miguel de Cervantes: Self-deceit
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.” —Miguel de Cervantes.
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Martin Heidegger: Man and language
“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.” —Martin Heidegger.
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Evelyn Beatrice Hall: Goodness
“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.” —Evelyn Beatrice Hall.
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Marcello Mastroianni: A profession?
“They come for you in the morning in a limousine, they take you to the studio, they stick a pretty girl in your arms… They call that a profession? Come on!” —-Marcello Mastroianni.
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Incredibly delicious
“I’m not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it’s incredibly delicious.” —Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Shel Silverstein: Hug o’ war
“I will not play at tug o’ war. / I’d rather play at hug o’ war, / Where everyone hugs instead of tugs.” —Shel Silverstein, writer.
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Edward Bach: Mediator
“In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.” —Edward Bach.
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Simon Sinek: Accountability versus blame
“Accountability is hard. Blame is easy. One builds trust, the other destroys it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Fay Weldon: Worry
“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.” —Fay Weldon.
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C J Mahaney: Discouraged
“I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged – easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.” —C J Mahaney.
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Ned Tanen: Done those things
“Every woman has had the guy she’s broken up with park across the street and stare at her door. Every guy has had someone call at two in the morning and hang up. Or you’ve been the person who has done those things.” —Ned Tanen.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Tune out
“When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Lady
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Leon Jaworski: Competent extremist
“I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.” —Leon Jaworski.
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Christian Lous Lange: Greater chance of survival
“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.” —Christian Lous Lange.
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William Carlos Williams: News from poems
“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” —William Carlos Williams.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Vitamin
“A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don’t eat it.” —Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.
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Agatha Christie: Curious and beautiful
“Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.” —Agatha Christie.
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Solomon Asch: Social acts
“Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated… No error in thinking about social acts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.” —Solomon Asch.
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Jacqueline Bisset: Three lives
“Ideally, couples need three lives, one for him, one for her, and one for them together.” —Jacqueline Bisset.
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Albert Einstein: Life’s coming attractions
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ― Albert Einstein.
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Roger E Kasperson: Political act
“… the defining of risk is essentially a political act.” —Roger E. Kasperson.
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Amy Yasbeck: Off camera
“After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.” —Amy Yasbeck.
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O Henry: Straw vote
“A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.” —O. Henry.
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Stephen Jay Gould: Erroneous stories
“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best — and therefore never scrutinize or question.” —Stephen Jay Gould.
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Colin Firth: Philistine country
“The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I’m not denying they exist. But it’s a far more philistine country than people think.” —Colin Firth.
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James Hilton: Damned dull time
“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.” —James Hilton.
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Claude Pepper: Next generation
“If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.” —Claude Pepper.
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Simon Sinek: Contribute
“Don’t complain. Contribute.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alexander Hamilton: Inconstant
“An individual who is observed to be inconstant to his plans, or perhaps to carry on his affairs without any plan at all, is marked at once. By all prudent people, as a speedy victim to his own unsteadiness and folly.”‒ Alexander Hamilton.
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Alexander Mackendrick: Better actors
“Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.” —Alexander Mackendrick.
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Edith Sitwell: Patient with stupidity
“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” —Edith Sitwell.
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Sir Malcolm Bradbury: Married people
‘Why is it that married people always say “Come in” when everything they do says “Get out”?’ —Sir Malcolm Bradbury.
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Jane Addams: Precarious and uncertain
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” —Jane Addams.
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Graham Yost: Corner
“If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.” —Graham Yost.
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Ivan Illich: Consumer society
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.” —Ivan Illich.
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William James: In spite of all our caution
“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.”— William James.
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Ivan Illich: Hope and expectation
“We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.” —Ivan Illich.
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Sarah Orne Jewett: Harbor
“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.” –Sarah Orne Jewett.
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Charlie Sheen: Mars research
“The Mars research has advanced my life in no capacity. How has it helped your life? Looks like Arizona, tastes like chicken. Billions of dollars. I think we should just blow it up and sniff it as it drifts past.” —Charlie Sheen.
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Henry Lewis Mencken: Seldom a mistake
“Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.” —Henry Lewis Mencken.
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Paul Bourget: Complicity
“There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.” —-Paul Bourget.
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Pawan Kalyan: Change yourself
“Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.” —Pawan Kalyan.
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Lady Marguerite Blessington: More lofty
“Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.” —Lady Marguerite Blessington.
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William Saroyan: Try to be alive
“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.” —William Saroyan.
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Lewis Black: Feelings
“I do have certain feelings. My feeling is that whoever is in charge, I want him out.” —Lewis Black.
