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2016-04-04

Quotation of the day: Martin Luther King



The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (Atlanta, 15 de janeiro de 1929 — Memphis, 4 de abril de 1968)

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2013-07-03

Quotation of the day - Franz Kafka (on his 130th birthday)

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka (b. 3 July 1883, in Prague, Austria-Hungary; d. 3 July 1883 in Kierling near Vienna, First Republic of Austria)



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2012-01-15

Citadão do dia / Quotation of the day - Martin Luther King


- We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream

Nós não estaremos satisfeitos até que a justiça corra como água e a retidão como um caudaloso rio.

Martin Luther King , Jr. (Atlanta, 15 de janeiro de 1929 — Memphis, 4 de abril de 1968)

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2011-10-02

Quotation of the day / Citação do dia - Gandhi

There is no way to Peace. Peace is the way

Não existe um caminho para a paz. A paz é o caminho

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી; (Devnagari मोहनदास करमचंद गांधी), pronounced [moːɦənəd̪aːsə kərəmətɕənd̪ə ɡaːnd̪ʱi] 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948)

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2011-09-24

Quotation of the day / Citação do dia - Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

A marca de uma inteligência de primeira ordem é a capacidade de ter duas ideias opostas presentes no espírito ao mesmo tempo e nem por isso deixar de funcionar.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (24 de setembro de 1896, Saint Paul, Minnesota - 21 de dezembro de 1940, Hollywood)

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2011-07-05

Citação do Dia / Quotation of the Day - Bill Watterson

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Às vezes acho que o sinal mais claro de que há vida inteligente algures no universo é o facto dela não ter entrado em contacto connosco.

Bill Watterson (b. Washington, July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist and the author of the influential and popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.

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2011-06-18

Letters to Juliet: What and if


"What" and "if" two words as nonthreatening as words come. But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: "What if?"...

I don't know how your story ended. But I know that if what you felt then was love - true love - then it's never too late. If it was true then it why wouldn't it be true now? You need only the courage to follow your heart...

I don't know what a love like that feels like... a love to leave loved ones for, a love to cross oceans for... but I'd like to believe if I ever felt it. I'd have the courage to seize it. I hope you had the courage to seize it, Claire. And if you didn't, I hope one day that you will.

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2011-02-15

Quotation of the Day / Citação do Dia - Jeremy Bentham


Não importa se os animais são incapazes ou não de pensar, nem se podem ou não falar. O que importa é que são capazes de sofrer.

The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham (philosopher and animal rights activist, b. 15 Feb. 1748 – d. 6 Jun.1832)

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2011-02-02

Quotation of the Day / Citação do Dia - Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
(português)
O segredo da felicidade é o seguinte: deixar que os nossos interesses sejam tão amplos quanto possível, e deixar que as nossas reacções em relação às coisas e às pessoas sejam tão amistosas quanto possam ser.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (b. Ravenscroft, Wales, 18 May 1872 — Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales, 2 Feb. 1970)

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2011-01-08

Citação do Dia / Quotation of the Day - Janus and The Tourist


Elise: It's the um...the Roman god, Janus. My mother gave it to me when I was little. She wanted to teach me that people have two sides. A good side, a bad side, a past, a future. And that we must embrace both in someone we love. And I tried. (in The tourist a movie with Angeline Jolie and Johnny Depp)

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2010-12-01

Think of love as a state of grace / Encara o amor como um estado de graça...

The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.

A essência de um ser humano resiste ao passar do tempo. As nossas vidas são eternas, o que significa que os nossos espíritos continuam a ser tão jovens e vigorosos como quando éramos jovens. Encara o amor como um estado de graça... não um meio para chegar a um fim, mas o alfa e o ómega, um fim em si mesmo.

(Gabriel Garcia Marquez in O Amor em Tempos de Cólera).

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2010-09-14

Citação do Dia / Quotation of the day - Dante


The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Os lugares mais quentes do Inferno estão reservados para aqueles que em tempos de grande crise moral mantêm a sua neutralidade.

Les places les plus chaudes en enfer sont réservées à ceux qui lors des grandes crises morales maintiennent leur neutralité.


D(ur)ANTE ALIGHIERI nasceu em Florença a 8 de Maio de 1265 e faleceu em Ravenna a 14 de Setembro de 1321

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2010-06-25

Quotation of the day: It's the memory of another life you could have had

Gavin Banek: It's like you go to the beach. You go down to the water. It's a little cold. You're not sure you want to go in. There's a pretty girl standing next to you. She doesn't want to go in either. She sees you, and you know that if you just asked her her name, you would leave with her. Forget your life, whoever you came with, and leave the beach with her. And after that day, you remember. Not every day, every week... she comes back to you. It's the memory of another life you could have had. Today is that girl (in Changing Lanes)

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2010-05-18

Citação do dia / Quotation of the day - Bertrand Russell

Cedo ou tarde, a todo o homem chega a grande renúncia. Para o jovem não existe nada inalcançável. Que algo bom e desejado com toda a força de uma vontade apaixonada seja impossível, não lhe parece crível. Mas, ou por meio da morte ou da doença, da pobreza ou da voz do dever, cada um de nós é forçado a aprender que o mundo não foi feito para nós e que, não importa quão belas as coisas que almejamos, o destino pode, não obstante, proibi-las. É parte da coragem, quando a adversidade vem, suportá-la sem lamentar a derrocada das nossas esperanças, afastando os nossos pensamentos de vãos arrependimentos. Esse grau de submissão (…) não é somente justo e correcto: ele é o portal da sabedoria.


in O Livro das Citações, Eduardo Gianetti, Publicações Dom Quixote


To every man comes, sooner or later, the great renunciation. For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without repining the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to Power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom.


Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (b. Trellech, Monmouthshire, UK, 18 May 1872; d. 2 February 1970 in Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales, UK)

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2010-05-08

Management Lesson (XIV) - Leadership is ...

Leadership is the art to have people do something they dislike, and have them enjoy it.


A liderança é a capacidade de conseguir que as pessoas façam o que não querem fazer e gostem de o fazer.

Harry Truman (born in Lamar, Missouri, on May 8, 1884; d. in Kansas City Dec. 26, 1972).

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2010-01-22

Quotation of the day

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."

Lord George Gordon Byron (b. London 22 Jan. 1788 – d. Missolonghi, Greece, 19 Apr. 1824)

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2009-12-08

Quotation of the day


Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace. New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire. For the heart is an organ of fire — I love that. I believe that (in The English Patient)

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2009-11-08

Quotation of the day

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. - Margaret Mitchell (b. 8 November 1900, Atlanta, Geórgia – d. 16 Aug. 1949, idem).

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