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QUOTES

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The time of rains has come, my darling, spreading its splendour like a king, with streaming clouds, the rutting elephants, lightning flashes … peals of thunder, beating drums: a season dear to all lovers … Hanging low with the weight of water, sought by thirsty chataka birds, the clouds … rain down in showers with delightful sounds … KALIDAS RITUSAMHARAM
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Software is eating the world … Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen
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Where there is a market supply will follow
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The views make up for the queues.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans … Woody Allen
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Two monks argue if the flag or the wind is moving. A third says, ‘Not the wind, not the flag; the mind is moving.’ A ZEN KOAN
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When life gives lemons, some people make lemonade.
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Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year … CHARLES DICKENS
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It doesn’t matter what the colour of the cat is, as long as it catches the mice.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom … Mao
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If Mohammed does not come to the mountain, the mountain will come to Mohammed.
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When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten… When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; and when the heart is right, ‘for’ and ‘against’ are forgotten … Osho
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … CHARLES DICKENS
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Irwing Wallace once said that in a free society, no one should come between an idea and its audience. If that happens the society is no longer free.
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Albert Einstein believed it’s not possible to simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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Good fences make good neighbours … Robert Frost
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It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit… Harry Truman
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Vivekananda said choose: focus on the job or seek credit. Both have divergent consequences.
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If I keep saying that I cannot do a certain thing, it’s possible I may really become incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning … MK Gandhi
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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety … wrote Shakespeare in his play Antony and Cleopatra, referring to the Queen of the Nile
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What dreadful hot weather we have ! It keeps one in continual state of inelegance … Jane Austen 1796 moan about what we would now call a heatwave, in a letter to her sister Cassandra
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I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying … MICHAEL JORDAN
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We, who inhabit the earth, dwell like frogs at the bottom of a pool. Only if man could rise above the summit of air, could behold the true earth, the world in which we live … SOCRATES
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Arnold J Toynbee said that history is written in terms of these two words – challenge and response.
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Screw your courage to the sticking place and we will not fail … Shakespeare
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as the adage goes: ‘Never talk when your mouth is full’
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the poet laureate of puberty… The Washington Post on Tailor Swift
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Mark Antony’s celebrated broadside against a more formidable Roman rival … “But Brutus is an honourable man”
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages … FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affair… Enoch Powell.. western politician
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German sociologist Karl Mannheim argued that young people drive society forward as they are the bearers of new ideas.
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The world will never adjust itself
To suit your whims to the letter.
Some things must go wrong your whole life long,
And the sooner you know it the better.
It is folly to fight with the infinite …
The wiser man shapes into God’s plan
As water shapes into a vessel
ELLA W WILCOX
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the second line in William Cowper’s poem … ‘My right there is none to dispute ‘
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There is a Zen saying: Don’t just do something and sit there
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Dont let the good come in the way of best
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Sanskrit saying … ‘Durjanam Pratamam Vande, Surjanam Tadanantaram’, meaning I salute the wicked one first, then the good, because he taught me what I should not do.
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A logo is a visual representation of what a brand hopes to embody
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Meet together, speak together, let your minds be of one accord, as the Gods of old, being of one mind, accepted their share of the sacrifice … Let your aims be common, and your hearts of one accord, and all of you be of one mind, so you may live well together …RIG VEDA
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Choose right over wrong, the lasting over the passing, true happiness over trivial joys. Oot for Spirit not matter: Constantly. Consistently.
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Always the law is: As you think so you become. You will become spirit. Free from the ups and downs of the world. Always happy.
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The Self is immortal. It was not born, nor does it die. It did not come out of anything, neither did anything come out of it … The one who thinks that he is a slayer and the one who thinks that he is slain, both are ignorant. The Self neither slays nor is it slain … KATHOPANISHAD
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To paraphrase Esther Perel, what is the point of living longer, if you can’t do so in harmony with those around you.
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We are connected to each other biologically, to the Earth chemically, and to the rest of the Universe atomically … says astrophysicist NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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The endless cycle of idea and action, endless invention, endless experiment … TS Eliot
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You have only to remain quiet and firm in your following of the path and your will to go to the end. If you do that, circumstances will in the end be obliged to shape themselves to your will, because it will be the Divine Will in you … SRI AUROBINDO
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Success has many fathers while failure is an orphan
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Beware of the vice of over talking and consequently under listening
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‘Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are’ … GERMAN POET BERTOLT BRECHT
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To climb to the sixth step, you have to abandon the fifth.
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Mine is only the finger pointing at the moon. If you think my finger is the moon, you are misled.
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Know thyself is an endless endeavour full of riches, for he who knows himself knows all.
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Direct experience is our first teacher
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We lose with every convenience we gain
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Time is the mental measurement of the motivity of action. If there is no action there is no question of any measurement of time. If the moon does not move around the EARTH, no question of  days months or years
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What is lost because it is most precious/what is most precious because it is lost … AMIRI BARAKA
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God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another; … Hamlet, William Shakespeare
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I made mistakes… I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries … FRANK CAPRA
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived… Helen Keller
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The perfect is the enemy of the good… VOLTAIRE
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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune… FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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I don’t know anything with certainty. But seeing the stars makes me dream… VINCENT VAN GOGH
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We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence… STEPHEN HAWKING
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Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation… RALPH W EMERSION
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