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George Harrison: Time is misleading
“Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one.”— George Harrison.
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Edward Abbey: Society is like a stew
“Society is like a stew. If you don’t keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top.” —Edward Abbey.
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Paul Murphy: Founders’ mistake
“The mistake founders (including me) have and will continue to make is assuming the best technology wins.”— Paul Murphy.
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Ajit Pawar: Chain around a bull’s neck
“Gold looks good on mothers, wives, sisters and daughters. It does not look good on men. So men should not get involved in gold. If you wear gold, it looks like a chain around a bull’s neck.” —Ajit Pawar.
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Colette: Destroy most of it
“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” —Colette.
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William H Foege: Life plans are an illusion
“Life plans are an illusion. I tell students that they cannot imagine the opportunities that life will present and that they should spend their time developing a life philosophy rather than a life plan.”—William H. Foege.
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William Foege: Nobody ever thanks you
“Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn’t know they were going to get.” —William Foege.
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William Foege: Remote impact
“People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can’t impact you as a person. It’s not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we’re going to have to have healthy people in Africa.” —William Foege.
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Justin Welsh: Fastest way to feel behind
“The fastest way to feel behind is to measure your chapter 1 against someone else’s chapter 20.” —Justin Welsh.
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Learned Hand: Dissolution
“That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where…
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Ivan Krastev: Transparency
“Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.”—IVAN KRASTEV.
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Ellen DeGeneres: Traditional values
“I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me those are traditional values.” —Ellen DeGeneres.
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William Somerset Maugham: Love a changed person
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” —William Somerset Maugham.
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Mark Tully: I do not call it God
“I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in.” —Mark Tully.
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J Krishnamurti: You are being violent
“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind.” —J Krishnamurti.
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Mark Tully: Equal treatment of unequals
“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.” —Mark Tully.
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Mark Tully: Educated unemployed
“There is no more fertile ground for revolution than the educated unemployed.” —Mark Tully, Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi’s Last Battle.
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George Carlin: Universal species
“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.” —George Carlin.
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David Marcus: AI is a superpower
“AI is a superpower for people with agency, and a deadly poison for those without.”— DAVID MARCUS (@DAVIDMMARCUS).
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Stendhal: It does not matter
“If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.” —Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle).
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Katharine Hepburn: Life kills you
“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” —Katharine Hepburn.
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Lord Byron: Set our young men abroad
“I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few…
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Imelda Marcos: Beautiful shoes
“They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.” —Imelda Marcos.
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Gretel Ehrlich: Walking
“Walking is also an ambulation of mind.” —Gretel Ehrlich.
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Valentino Garavani: Evening dress
“An evening dress that reveals a woman’s ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.”—Valentino Garavani.
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Richard Armitage: Diplomacy
“Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends…You’ve got to talk to people who aren’t our friends, and even people you dislike.” —Richard Armitage.
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Bill Maher: Infantile fantasy land
“Maybe every other American movie shouldn’t be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.” —Bill Maher.
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John Sununu: Great mystery
“The point at which a tax deduction becomes a ‘loophole’ or a tax incentive a ‘subsidy for special interests’ is one of the great mysteries of politics.” —John Sununu.
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Janis Joplin: I go home alone
“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.” —Janis Joplin.
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Dan Martell: Start serving
“Stop networking. Start serving. The ROI is better.” —Dan Martell (@danmartell).
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Tom Cargill: The 90 percent
“The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.” — Tom Cargill.
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Orson Welles: Nobody gets justice
“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” —Orson Welles.
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Margaret Courtney: Be kind to thy father
“Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, / Who loved thee so fondly as he? / He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, / And joined in thy innocent glee.” —Margaret Courtney.
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Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev: The logic is simple
“The logic is simple: if you do the right things, the right things will happen to you even without your intent.” —Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Never be afraid to do what’s right
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martha Gellhorn: Citizenship
“Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.” —Martha Gellhorn.
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Albert Schweitzer: Animals
“We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them.” —Albert Schweitzer.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Million fathoms deep
“Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Cabu: Only weapons
“Sometimes laughter hurts, but humor and mockery are our only weapons.” —Cabu (pen name of Jean Cabut), cartoonist and co-founder of Charlie Hebdo (13 Jan 1938-2015).
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Oscar Wilde: Freedom, books, flowers, and the moon
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” —Oscar Wilde.
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Haruki Murakami: Fuel
“People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.” —Haruki Murakami.
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Marcus Aurelius: Speculating about neighbours
“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbours… To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking or scheming means a loss of opportunity for some other task.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Eknath Easwaran: Lasting change
“Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.” —Eknath Easwaran.
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Marilyn Monroe: Calendar girl
“I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.” —Marilyn Monroe.
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Lewis H Lapham: Disssent
“Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.” —Lewis H. Lapham.
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William Blake: Sand against the wind
“You throw the sand against the wind.And the wind blows it back again.”—William Blake.
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Charles Peguy: Accomplice
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” —Charles Peguy.
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Chuck Palahniuk: We all die
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” —Chuck Palahniuk.
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Kahlil Gibran: Forget not
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” —Kahlil Gibran.
