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Good thoughts in Bad times pulls you through. … Thomas Fuller

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last. … Abraham Cowley
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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA capped it all in his far-reaching vision: “Arise, awake and see her seated here on her eternal throne, rejuvenated, more glorious than she ever was.”
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Variety is the spice of life.
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I will do what I say, I will also do what I don’t say … RAJNIKANTH
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Fear is reaction, courage is decision … WINSTON CHURCHILL
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If God did not exist we would have had to invent him, is a saying attributed to Voltaire.
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Old adage … If you torture the data sufficiently it will confess to anything.
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Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour? … ALLAN RUFUS
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Old Hindi saying… A scabbard can’t fit two swords
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“what’s in a name?” Asks Bard, dismissively.
    “What things are called is unspeakably more important than what they are” counters Nietzsche
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist … NIETZSCHE
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I don’t want to live alone. I just don’t want to live inside a cage of expectations .. CUE VIOLINS

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The cat never came out of the bag. But one evening I distinctly heard it mewing inside its sack, and I even believe I saw a claw through the canvas … This is a line from Rowdon’s Roof by DH Lawrence
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have … LOMBARDI, AMERICAN FOOTBALL COACH
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What gets measured gets managed … PETER DRUCKER
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A problem well stated is problem half solved.
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“Serious international sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting.”. George Orwell said in 1945
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Tagore once wrote … That ants grow wings before they perish
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Don’t walk in front of me … I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… Just be my friend … ALBERT CAMUS
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If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? … SHAKESPEARE
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Wordsworth was waxing far too poetic when he described childhood as “trailing clouds of glory.”
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All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances … WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AS YOU LIKE IT
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The baddies will more often than not outsmart the good guys
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“Doth protest too much” … An oft quotes SHAKESPEARE phrase
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George Bernard would say … Youth is the most beautiful thing in the world and what a pity it has to be wasted on children
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As a poet said, “White and weightless, snowfall makes no noise, falls as forgetting falls.
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The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t… Anthea Turner/Television presenter
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The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master … Richard Branson/ business magnate
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In a large hotel, you become a room no.’ … Biki Oberoi 15/11/23
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I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies… Thomas Babington Macaulay

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“Whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain” … Excellently summed up at the end of The Mayor of Casterbridge by Elizabeth Jane
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so … HAMLET
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Quote of the Day
“Learn a vocation that will help you through this world and the next. “
— Rumi —
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SAID
‘Nothing is vulgar. Mind makes it so.’
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Turkish proverb
If speaking is silver; then listening is gold. Listen thrice. Think twice. Speak once.
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Hamlet’s famous soliloquy. Where the young prince asks:
    ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it … PJ O’ROURKE
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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home… DAVID FROST
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If you live in lies, you will live in misery… OSHO
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We do not have the poet in us, to see and cherish the richness of our own lives … Raina Maria Rilke
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In a minute there is time for a hundred decisions that a minute will reverse… TS Eliot
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized … SUN TZU
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Genius, the saying goes, is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
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Politicians are nothing if not practical
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Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable and the next best … Bismarck, the 19th century German politician
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I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time … Charles Dickens
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The famous soliloquy … ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’ … Hamlet, Shakespeare
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All the world’s stage/And all the men and women merely players … William Shakespeare in As You Like it.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves… William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar
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Hari Om Tat Sat … Vedic Mantra
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Rumi introduced himself, saying … I am neither Christian nor Jew, Neither Persian nor Muslim. I am neither the East nor West, Neither from land nor from water.
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Jami says … Whether or not ones goes to heaven or hell is doubtful, but the world can be turned into heaven by accepting that everyone’s right from his or her angle.
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The real meaning of economic equality is “To each according to his need” … Gandhi
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A city is as progressive as its people.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say … VOLTAIRE
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Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident … Hamlet
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Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung… Hamlet
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The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge … Hamlet
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American wisdom: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But, if it’s broke, buddy, and it needs fixing, don’t jinx it.
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To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it gardens into grasping or negativity… PEMA CHODRON
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GDP simply measures circulation of money in the economy, not whether or not the outcome of using that money is positive or negative… CAROLINE LUCAS