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By Kamlesh Tripathi
By Kamlesh Tripathi
BEAUTIFUL LINES &
INTERESTING THOUGHTS
§ Mind without heart,
intelligence without conduct, cleverness without goodness are tools, but only
for mischief.
§ Behave the way you can
always behave—Annonymous.
§
Time is neutral and does not change
things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things- Jesse Jackson.
§
“Even God will not dare to appear in
front of a hungry man unless in the form of bread.”- MK Gandhi.
§
Channel the Bob Marley inside you, get
up, stand up, don’t give up the fight.
§
People shouldn’t be afraid of their
government. Governments should be afraid of their people—Alan Moore.
§ Who is rich? He
that is content. Who is that? Nobody—Benjamin Franklin.
§ I would not
wish any companion in the world but you—Shakespeare.
§ The Rig Veda
tells us: “Let noble thoughts come to us from everywhere.”
§ “Nobody can
tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never
pitied.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
§ Justice as Lord
Atkin said is “no cloistered virtue.”
§ Sometimes words that fail to make their effect
at the time are remembered later—Agatha Christie.
§ Give your
clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality—whatever the
inconvenience to us—Arthur Nielson.
§ Opportunities present themselves every day.
You just have to be alert and ready to act.—Mark Ostrofsky, US Entrepreneur.
§ Sometimes it’s
worse to win a fight than to lose—Billie Holiday.
§ The best of us
must sometimes eat our words—JK Rowling.
§ The only thing
that will redeem mankind is cooperation—Bertran Russell.
§ What is a
cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and value of nothing—Oscar Wilde.
§ Slow down and
steady up—annonymous.
§ All work and no
play/makes Jack a dull boy. To which the cautionary response goes ‘All play and
no work/ Makes Jack a mere toy.’ TOI Editorial.
§ Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done
when you leave—Wilson Mazner, US playwright.
§ Never hate your enemies. It affects your
judgement- Mario Puzo- Godfather.
§ We’ve seen over time that countries that have
the best economic growth are those that have good governance- Ramez Naam US
writer.
§ A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue,
That’s why there are so few good conversations- Truman.
§ History does not repeat itself exactly but, as
Mark Twain put it, it often rhymes.
§ If you have built castles in the air ... now
put the foundations under them—Henry David Thoureau.
§ Margaret Thatcher’s warning that those
standing in the middle of the road get run over.
§ The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind
them between the millstones of taxation and inflation—Vladmir Lenin.
§ Carlyle- the history of the world is but
biography of great men.’ Some so called great men have their hands deep in
blood.
§ Boris Pasternak author of Dr Zhivago called
silence the best sound on earth.’
§ The greatest obstacle to excellence is you!
A caddy once told a champion golfer, “There’s a perfect shot waiting out there.
All you have to do is to get yourself out of the way.”
§ In short, I will part with anything for you
but you- Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer.
§
By failing to prepare, you are
preparing to fail- Benjamin Franklin.
§
What is freedom of expression? Without
the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist- Salman Rushdie.
§ There are good times and there are bad times,
but one must never forget the hard times—Annonymous.
§ When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry—William Shakespeare.
§ Kritam Lokham Purushoabhijayte- Man himself
builds his own world.
§ The boxer Muhammad Ali refused to wear his
seat-belt on a plane. “Superman doesn’t need a belt,” he insisted. Tying his
belt for him, the stewardess replied, “Superman doesn’t need a plane either.”
§ Exhibitionists: at a wedding they want to be
the bride. At a funeral the corpse. Julius Caesar who was an incorrigible
egotist, was kidnapped when he was a child. He was held for a ransom of 11,000
gold pieces. Horrified exhorted his captors to raise the sum to 250,000 gold
pieces so as to preserve his prestige.
§ You only find out who is swimming naked when
the tide goes out—Warren Buffet.
§ The whole of western science has developed
from Greek philosophy. It stands on the foundations of Greek Philosophy, and
one of Greek philosophy’s basic beliefs is that time travels in a straight
line.
§ The bread that falls off your plate nearly
always lands on the buttered side.
§ Evil manners live in brass, but our virtues we
write in water.
§ There is a Mexican saying that we die three
deaths: the first time we die is when our bodies die. The second is when our
bodies are lowered into the earth, out of sight. The third time we die is when
our loved ones forget us.
§ Being different and thinking different makes a
person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable- Suzy Kassem,
US writer.
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