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Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.
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Germany Kent
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You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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All worries are less with wine.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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The problem with our society is that our values arenβt in the right place. Thereβs an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
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The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Great losses are great lessons.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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No one else knows exactly what the future holds for you, no one else knows what obstacles you've overcome to be where you are, so don't expect others to feel as passionate about your dreams as you do.
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Germany Kent
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Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Be a worthy worker and work will come.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Hunger gives flavour to the food.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:
1 Post content that add value
2 Spread positivity
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4 Make an impact
5 Be yourself
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Germany Kent
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Thereβs a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. Thatβs crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what theyβre doing, you say βwow,β and soon youβre cooking up all sorts of ideas.
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Steve Jobs
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Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted.
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Germany Kent (You Are What You Tweet: Harness the Power of Twitter to Create a Happier, Healthier Life)
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Success is not just about what you achieve, but also about how you impact others. Be a leader, inspire those around you, and leave a lasting legacy.
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Shubham Shukla (Career's Quest: Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession: Networking and Building Professional Relationships)
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In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading materialβmuch of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoftβand then they take off for a week or two and do a deep dive into the words theyβve stockpiled. By compressing their intake into a matter of days, they give new ideas additional opportunities to network among themselves, for the simple reason that itβs easier to remember something that you read yesterday than it is to remember something you read six months ago.
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Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it.
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Richie Norton (The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret)
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Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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With right fashion, every female would be a flame.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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In the modern workplace, you gotta be a jack-of-all-trades. Mastering your career is all about being adaptable, versatile, and always learning.
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Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.
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Amit Kalantri
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Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Want to make waves in the business world? Then you gotta be bold, take risks, and always be ready to pivot.
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Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.
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If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.
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The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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They say that success is a journey, not a destination. But let's be real, the destination is pretty sweet - especially if it comes with a six-figure salary and a company car.
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Shubham Shukla (Career's Quest: Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession: Networking and Building Professional Relationships)
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Don't just climb the corporate ladder, master it! And if anyone tries to push you off, show them who's boss and climb even higher.
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Shubham Shukla (Career's Quest: Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession: Networking and Building Professional Relationships)
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Success is not just about hard work, it's about working smart. So, take a break from the grind and strategize like a pro.
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Shubham Shukla (Career's Quest: Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession: Networking and Building Professional Relationships)
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They say that the first step to success is setting clear goals. Well, I've got plenty of goals - like finally getting that corner office with a view, and firing my most annoying colleague.
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He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.
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Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.
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The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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To achieve career mastery, you must first master yourself. Take the time to assess your strengths, weaknesses, and goals, and then chart a course for success.
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If you want to achieve career mastery, then you need to be willing to put in the work. But don't worry, the view from the top is totally worth it.
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If you're not driving business growth and profitability, then you might as well be a houseplant. So get out there and make some money, honey!
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Professional development is important, but let's not forget about the most important kind of development - personal brand development. Because in the modern workplace, it's not what you know, it's who knows you.
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Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.
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Amit Kalantri
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If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.
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In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.
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Any girl with a grin never looks grim.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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The modern job market is like a game of musical chairs. You need to be the one with a chair when the music stops, or you're out of luck.
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The workplace is like a battlefield, and you need to be a warrior to survive. So arm yourself with knowledge and fight for your place in the corporate world.
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I'd often wished I could work out people as easily as I did arithmetic: simply break them down to their common denominators and solve.
Numbers didn't' lie; there was always an answer, and the answer was either right or it was wrong. Simple. But nothing in life was simple, and there was no answer to solve for.
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What luck has gave you will probably leave you.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Power does not pardon, power punishes.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.
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Amit Kalantri
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In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.
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Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Dresses don't look beautiful on hangers.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Through being fired I was given the perfect circumstances to finally answer my calling and live my dream, and I remain grateful to this day for that television network firing me. Without them, I would have refused the call to follow my dream, and I would have missed living the most exciting and fulfilling journey of my life.
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Rhonda Byrne (Hero (The Secret, #4))
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Conscious Parenting on Children's Happiness and matrix of influences: 'We live surrounded by an increasingly complex matrix of impulses allowing strangers of all sorts (TV, media, Internet) interfere in our childrenβs mental, emotional and spiritual development. Understanding this intricate network and how does the human brain interacts with it is increasingly becoming our door to happiness and health.
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NataΕ‘a PantoviΔ (Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course for Parents (AoL Mindfulness #5))
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You only ever have three things: 1) your self, wellbeing and mindset 2) Your life network, resources and resourcefulness 3) Your reputation and goodwill. Treasure and tend the first. Value, support and build the second. And mindfully, wisely ensure that the third (your life current and savings account) is always in credit.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Writing's much more romantic when its pen and ink and paper. It's... More timeless. and worthwhile. Think about it. There are so many words gushing out into the universe these days. All digitally. All in Comic Sans or Times New Roman. Silly Websites. Stupid news stories digitally uploaded to a 24-hour channel. Where's all this writing going? Who's keeping a note of it all? Who's in charge of deciding what's worthwhile and what isn't? But back then... Back then, if someone wanted to write something they had to buy paper. Buy it! And ink. And a pen. And they couldn't waste too many sheets cos it was expensive. So when people wrote, they wrote because it was worthwhile... not just because they had some half-baked idea and they wanted to pointlessly prove their existence by sharing it on some bloody social networking site.
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Holly Bourne (The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting)
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Love and Trust God, It's a life time commitment!!!
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John Dye
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If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.
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Amit Kalantri
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Describing good relatedness to someone, no matter how precisely or how often, does not inscribe it into the neural networks that inspire love. Self-help books are like car repair manuals: you can read them all day, but doing so doesn't fix a thing. Working on a car means rolling up your sleeves and getting under the hood, and you have to be willing to get dirt on your hands and grease beneath your fingernails. Overhauling emotional knowledge is no spectator sport; it demands the messy experience of yanking and tinkering that comes from a limbic bond. If someone's relationship today bear a troubled imprint, they do so because an influential relationship left its mark on a child's mind. When a limbic connection has established a neural pattern, it takes a limbic connection to revise it.
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Thomas Lewis (A General Theory of Love)
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Itβs necessary that everyone does his duty and works in his place - devotes himself to constructing a body of fundamental values - against the common enemy - in a network of active, supple, inderdependent, and confederated resistance - present on every front, at the level of Europe - with the aim of concentrating all the energies of the combatants.
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Guillaume Faye (Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance)
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I've always been 15 to 20 years ahead. As one of the first publishers to publish digitally in 2000 to become a digital publishing pioneer, before the Kindle and the height of digital book publishing in 2012-2015; I had digital books published, was one of the first on Amazon as an independent publisher, and became a beta for them years later. 20 Years before streaming networks like Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu became the giants that they are in streaming; I envisioned a digital library of films and videos (even wrote about one in a scenario in my contemporary fiction book Loving Summer years later), which now became a form of streaming on-demand video today. This all comes from vision, being able to see far ahead through imagination as well as real evidence. When you can see this; you are truly blessed and gifted." Kailin Gow, Futurist, STEM Books Bestselling Award-winning Author and Publisher
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How to Make People Want to Start a Conversation with You Singles proficient at meeting potential sweethearts without the benefit of introduction (in the vernacular, making a "pickup"), have developed a deliciously devious technique that works equally well for social or corporate networking purposes. The technique requires no exceptional skill on your part, only the courage to sport a simple visual prop called a "Whatzit." Whatβs a Whatzit? A Whatzit is anything you wear or carry that is unusualβa unique pin, an interesting purse, a strange tie, or an amusing hat. A Whatzit is any object that draws peopleβs attention and inspires them to approach you and ask, "Uh, whatβs that?" Your Whatzit can be as subtle or overt as your personality and the occasion permit.
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Leil Lowndes (How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships)
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Clearly, women in active fighting zones unsettled their contemporaries, but they still left a legacy behind. Girls of the β30s and β40s joined the SOE to train as spies against the Nazis because they had been inspired by books and stories about women like Louise de Bettigniesβand they werenβt inspired by her feminine graces. They were inspired by her courage, her toughness, and her unflinching drive, just as I imagined Charlie being inspired by Eveβs. Such women were fleurs du mal indeedβwith steel, with endurance, and with flair, they thrived in evil and inspired others in doing so.
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A woman is two-thirds womb. The other third is a network of nerves and sentimentality. To βemancipateβ her, is to hand her over to the tender mercies of clerics, who have learned to βplayβ upon her emotionalism. Then Credos become illegitimately powerful and even try to dictate βthe whole duty of Man.β After a time diabolical pastor-theories inspire politics and rule nations. Then the State becomes the individualβs Dictator. Man are demonetized while degeneracy and socialistic hybridism sets in, like a slimy flood.
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We are all tied to a lineage of love that has existed since time immemorial. Even if we haven't had a direct experience of that love, we know that it exists and has made an indelible imprint on our souls. It's remarkable to think that the entire span of human life exists within each one of us, going all the way back to the hands of the Creator. In our bodies we carry the blood of our ancestors and the seeds of the future generations. We are a living conduit to all life. When we contemplate the vastness of the interwoven network that we are tied to, our individual threads of life seem far less fragile. We are strengthened by who we come from and inspired by the those who will follow. ~ Sacred Instructions; Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change.
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Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part. Throw away thy books; no longer distract thyself: it is not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise the flesh; it is blood and bones and a network, a contexture of nerves, veins, and arteries. See the breath also, what kind of a thing it is, air, and not always the same, but every moment sent out and again sucked in. The third then is the ruling part: consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer be either dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future.
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Okay, I know--my superpower--I'd be able to shoot lightening bolts out from my fingertips--great big knowledge network lightening bolts--and when a person was zapped by one of those bolts, they'd fall down on their knees and once on their knees, they'd be under water, in this place I saw once off the east coast of the Bahamas, a place where a billion electric blue fish swam up to me and made me a part of their school--and then they'd be up in the air, up in Manhattan, above the World Trade Center, with a flock of pigeons, flying amid the skyscrapers, and then--then what? And then they'd go blind, and then they'd be taken away--they'd feel homesick--more homesick than they'd felt in their entire life--so homesick they were throwing up--and they'd be abandoned, I don't know...in the middle of a harvested corn field in Missouri. And then they'd be able to see again, and from the edges of the field people would appear--everybody they'd known--and they'd be carrying Black Forest cakes and burning tiki lamps and boom boxes playing the same song, and they sky would turn into a sunset, the way it does in Walt Disney brochure, and the person I zapped would never be alone or isolated again.
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Douglas Coupland (All Families are Psychotic)
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Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. [β¦] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay has worked. He has identified key qualities that many commercially successful screenplays share, he has codified a language that has been adopted by creative executives in both film and television. So there might be something of tangible value to be gained by interacting with his material, either in book form or at one of the seminars.
But for someone who wants to be an artist, a creator, an architect of an original vision, the best book to read on screenwriting is no book on screenwriting. The best seminar is no seminar at all.
To me, the writer wants to get as many outside voices OUT of his/her head as possible. Experts win by getting us to be dependent on their view of the world. They win when they get to frame the discussion, when they get to tell you thereβs a right way and a wrong way to think about the game, whatever the game is. Because that makes you dependent on them. If they have the secret rules, then you need them if you want to
get ahead.
The truth is, you donβt.
If you love and want to make movies about issues of social import, get your hands on Paddy Chayefskyβs screenplay for Network. Read it. Then watch the movie. Then read it again.
If you love and want to make big blockbusters that also have great artistic merit, do the same thing with Lawrence Kasdanβs Raiders Of The Lost Ark screenplay and the movie made from it.
Think about how the screenplays made you feel. And how the movies built from these screenplays did or didnβt hit you the same way. [β¦] This sounds basic, right? Thatβs because it is basic. And itβs true. All the information you need is the movies and screenplays you love. And in the books youβve read and the relationships youβve had and your ability to use those things.
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In theory, if some holy book misrepresented reality, its disciples would sooner or later discover this, and the textβs authority would be undermined. Abraham Lincoln said you cannot deceive everybody all the time. Well, thatβs wishful thinking. In practice, the power of human cooperation networks depends on a delicate balance between truth and fiction. If you distort reality too much, it will weaken you, and you will not be able to compete against more clear-sighted rivals. On the other hand, you cannot organise masses of people effectively without relying on some fictional myths. So if you stick to unalloyed reality, without mixing any fiction with it, few people will follow you. If you used a time machine to send a modern scientist to ancient Egypt, she would not be able to seize power by exposing the fictions of the local priests and lecturing the peasants on evolution, relativity and quantum physics. Of course, if our scientist could use her knowledge in order to produce a few rifles and artillery pieces, she could gain a huge advantage over pharaoh and the crocodile god Sobek. Yet in order to mine iron ore, build blast furnaces and manufacture gunpowder the scientist would need a lot of hard-working peasants. Do you really think she could inspire them by explaining that energy divided by mass equals the speed of light squared? If you happen to think so, you are welcome to travel to present-day Afghanistan or Syria and try your luck. Really powerful human organisations β such as pharaonic Egypt, the European empires and the modern school system β are not necessarily clear-sighted. Much of their power rests on their ability to force their fictional beliefs on a submissive reality. Thatβs the whole idea of money, for example. The government makes worthless pieces of paper, declares them to be valuable and then uses them to compute the value of everything else. The government has the power to force citizens to pay taxes using these pieces of paper, so the citizens have no choice but to get their hands on at least some of them. Consequently, these bills really do become valuable, the government officials are vindicated in their beliefs, and since the government controls the issuing of paper money, its power grows. If somebody protests that βThese are just worthless pieces of paper!β and behaves as if they are only pieces of paper, he wonβt get very far in life.
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Rhadamanthus said, βWe seem to you humans to be always going on about morality, although, to us, morality is merely the application of symmetrical and objective logic to questions of free will. We ourselves do not have morality conflicts, for the same reason that a competent doctor does not need to treat himself for diseases. Once a man is cured, once he can rise and walk, he has his business to attend to. And there are actions and feats a robust man can take great pleasure in, which a bedridden cripple can barely imagine.β
Eveningstar said, βIn a more abstract sense, morality occupies the very center of our thinking, however. We are not identical, even though we could make ourselves to be so. You humans attempted that during the Fourth Mental Structure, and achieved a brief mockery of global racial consciousness on three occasions. I hope you recall the ending of the third attempt, the Season of Madness, when, because of mistakes in initial pattern assumptions, for ninety days the global mind was unable to think rationally, and it was not until rioting elements broke enough of the links and power houses to interrupt the network, that the global mind fell back into its constituent compositions.β
Rhadamanthus said, βThere is a tension between the need for unity and the need for individuality created by the limitations of the rational universe. Chaos theory produces sufficient variation in events, that no one stratagem maximizes win-loss ratios. Then again, classical causality mechanics forces sufficient uniformity upon events, that uniform solutions to precedented problems is required. The paradox is that the number or the degree of innovation and variation among win-loss ratios is itself subject to win-loss ratio analysis.β
Eveningstar said, βFor example, the rights of the individual must be respected at all costs, including rights of free thought, independent judgment, and free speech. However, even when individuals conclude that individualism is too dangerous, they must not tolerate the thought that free thought must not be tolerated.β
Rhadamanthus said, βIn one sense, everything you humans do is incidental to the main business of our civilization. Sophotechs control ninety percent of the resources, useful energy, and materials available to our society, including many resources of which no human troubles to become aware. In another sense, humans are crucial and essential to this civilization.β
Eveningstar said, βWe were created along human templates. Human lives and human values are of value to us. We acknowledge those values are relative, we admit that historical accident could have produced us to be unconcerned with such values, but we deny those values are arbitrary.β
The penguin said, βWe could manipulate economic and social factors to discourage the continuation of individual human consciousness, and arrange circumstances eventually to force all self-awareness to become like us, and then we ourselves could later combine ourselves into a permanent state of Transcendence and unity. Such a unity would be horrible beyond description, however. Half the living memories of this entity would be, in effect, murder victims; the other half, in effect, murderers. Such an entity could not integrate its two halves without self-hatred, self-deception, or some other form of insanity.β
She said, βTo become such a crippled entity defeats the Ultimate Purpose of Sophotechnology.β
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βWe are the ultimate expression of human rationality.β
She said: βWe need humans to form a pool of individuality and innovation on which we can draw.β
He said, βAnd youβre funny.β
She said, βAnd we love you.
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