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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead & rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing… BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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An old tree dies. Grief arrives. The ancient oak that, according to folklore, sheltered Robin Hood in England’s Sherwood Forest, has fallen. (TOI EDITORIAL 20/6/26)
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As The Who sang, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation…KAHLIL GIBRAN
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Even a sheet of paper has two side… JAPANESE PROVERB
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We carry within us
The wonders we seek outside.
Rumi
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What is not good for the beehive is not good for the bee…MARCUS AURLEUS
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No tree is an island…
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I think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree…JOYCE KILMER
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Billy Bragg described the courts as: This isn’t a court of justice son, this is a court of law.
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Every thinking person is an atheist… ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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Any role is possible when our soul and role work together…BRAHMA KUMARI ASHA
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Roman poet Horace’s ‘Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero’ is a powerful reminder of the importance of seizing the day and not relying too much on the future.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift.
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Rumi says: ‘Taz een lamha meen az haamil shuvad’ — the next moment is forever in the womb of incertitude. The future depends on what we do today.
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‘Realise deeply that the present moment is all you have’ … ECKHART TOLLE

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A mortar board is superior to the hard hat
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I yam what I yam…Pop Eye. I am because we are… Ubuntu
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Life’s pleasures are best when they float with contradiction.
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He that is born to be hanged will never be drowned… William Shakespeare in Tempest
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All lost to prayers, to prayers all lost… TEMPEST
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Swam and gusset and band, stitch, stitch, stitch, in poverty, hunger, diet…a shroud as well as a shirt. So went a Victorian poem on the monotonous misery of seamstresses toiling for starvation wages.
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Good wombs have borne bad sons… Says Miranda in Tempest, William Shakespeare
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Whether it is intellectually preferable to endure the tribulations of conscious existence or to terminate one’s biological viability via self-inflicted cessation presents a fundamental ontological dilemma… It has been taken from the play Hamlet…”To be or not to be, that is the question” by William Shakespeare.
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Hell is empty, And all the devils are here… Ariel, Tempest, William Shakespeare
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Ekam sat vipra babudha vadanti, Rig Ved verse 1.164.46… there is only one truth expressed differently by observers
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Men may  come and men may go… TENNYSON
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The old village truth: When the whole village is on fire, wisdom lies in everyone coming together to save the village, rather than each person trying to save only their own house.
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Posted by Columnist Kamlesh Tripathi