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Fidel Castro Quotes

– “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
– “A revolution is not a bed of roses.”
– “Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.”
– “How can we help President Obama?”
– “I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.”
– “I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.”
– “I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.”
– “I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”

– “I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”

– “I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.”

– “I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.”

– “I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.”

– “Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

– “More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.”

– “No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!”

– “North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.”

– “The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.”

– “The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.”

– “The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.”

– “They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”

Paul Johnson Quotes

Let us share with you some great Paul Johnson (journalist, historian, speechwriter and author) Quotes:

“It does not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold it”

“The word ‘meaningful’ when used today is nearly always meaningless.”

“The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family”

“There was some trucker guy and he said, ‘How’s the horses?’ … And I said, ‘The horses are OK, but I’m about to run out of fuel.’ So he let me siphon five gallons out of his truck. I don’t know his name.”

“For the same reason Ascend wanted Stratus’ technology, Lucent is also interested.”

“This quarter’s a throwaway.”

“But Cisco has not grown through acquisitions, … They’ve grown despite their acquisitions. The primary growth, as we saw in the quarter, was clearly from routers, which is Cisco’s historical product.”

“Although Cisco’s lowered stock price may be seductive to investors, we believe that there is still near term downside to the stock, … It is clearer than ever to us that the current Cisco appears to be merely a shadow of its former self.”

“We believe their leading competitors will continue to take market share from Cisco at an accelerated pace throughout the slowdown — especially in the service provider focused product arena.”

“In fact, we believe that the lengthening sell cycles may give incumbent carriers a chance to really experience next-generation equipment in the labs and, as a result, move away from Cisco products.”

Internet Quotes

– “Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.” – Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud

– “If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.” – Anil Ambani

– “Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.” – Sergey Brin

– “It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.” – George Bushism

– “The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.” – Vinton Cerf

– “They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person’s life. In other words, it’s evolving fast and faster.” – Vinton Cerf

– “Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.” – Vinton Cerf

– “The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.” – Vinton Cerf

– “I must confess that I’ve never trusted the Web. I’ve always seen it as a coward’s tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable “on notice”? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?” – Stephen Colbert

– “I think it’s a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I’m for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.” – Anderson Cooper

– “There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what’s happening in the nondigital world.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

– “The new information technology, Internet and e-mail, have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.” – Peter Drucker

– “Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.” – David Filo

– “We’re not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.” – David Filo

– “We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in.” – David Filo

– “First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.” – David Filo

– “The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don’t cause major problems. However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.” – David Filo

– “The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.” – Milton Friedman

– “Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.” – Bill Gates

– “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.” – Bill Gates

– “I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.” – Bill Gates

– “The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.” – Bill Gates

– “Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.” – Bill Gates

– “We’re at the point now where the challenge isn’t how to communicate effectively with e-mail, it’s ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.” – Bill Gates

Sam Worthington Quotes

– “I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars` worth when they go to a movie, and that they`re not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don`t care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think… ”
– “A mate of mine told me recently, `It`s the first time I`ve seen you work, Worthington.` I thought that was quite funny, but he was right. [Empire magazine, October 2006]”
– “A lot of these people were getting to where they didn’t need help anymore. You have to start all over again.”
– “People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.”
– “You help families focus on the future through their children.”

– “To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense… You have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.”

– “There has been much less work done in Sri Lanka because of the political problem. It may be a challenge for some donor countries to accept some exceptions amid restrictions on whom to work with.”

– “Our challenge is that we respond to stark events.”

Note: Sam Worthington is an American Hollywood actor. He is best known for his roles in Avatar (2009), Dirty Deeds (2002), Bootmen (2000)

Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain Hilarious Quotes

I love hilarious quotes, especially from great people, like Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. Let me share with you some of them:

“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde

“Journalism is unreadable, literature is never read.” – Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” –Oscar Wilde

“A true friend stabs you in the front.”-Oscar Wilde

“It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one’s enemies. It is the successes of one’s friends that are hard to bear.” – Oscar Wilde

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” – Oscar Wilde

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde

“I couldn’t help it. I can resist everything except temptation.” – Oscar Wilde

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.” – Oscar Wilde

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” –Oscar Wilde

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” –Oscar Wilde

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” – Oscar Wilde

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde

“One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.” – Oscar Wilde

“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.” – Oscar Wilde

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“When angry count four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain

“Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” – Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” –Mark Twain

“In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.” – Mark Twain

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” –Mark Twain

“Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.” – Mark Twain

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain

“It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain

Dale Carnegie Quotes

Let us share with you a great collection of Dale Carnegie Quotes:

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that has the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Ever time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence,is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Stephen Covey Quotes

– “A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.”

– “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

– “Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.”

– “In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”

– “It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.”

– “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

– “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

stephen-covey– “Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”

– “Public behavior is merely private character writ large.”

– “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

– “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

– “There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.”

– “We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”

– “We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”

– “We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.”

Motivational Michael Jordan Quotes

– “I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.”
– “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
– “Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”
– “I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”
michael-jordan– “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
– “I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
– “I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”

– “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”

– “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

– “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

Anais Nin Quotes

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.