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The road is always better than the inn… MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, SPANISH WRITER.
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Accept the children the way we accept trees with gratitude — because they are a blessing – but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change; you love them as they are… ISABEL ALLENDE
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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by…Douglas Adam, intergalactic hitchhiker.
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand… Essayist Thomas Carlyle
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Kausalya Supraja Ram…shlok by sage Vishwamitra on the banks of river Sarayu. The shlok means that their duties awaited.
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You have a right only to perform your prescribed duty, but never to its fruits… Bhagavad Gita
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Tena tyaktena bhunjitha… UPANISHAD means enjoy life and the world through detachment and renunciation without greed.
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A sword to kill a mosquito.
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Shooting first  and asking questions later may be a rule of the Wild West, but does not apply in law…HIGH COURT ON FDA RAIDS BY TUKARAM MUNDHE
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants…GREEK PHILOSOPHER EPICTETUS
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead decrees, ‘Thou shall not oppress a stranger, for ye were once a stranger in Egypt.
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‘Cuius regio, eius religio’ … Whose realm, his religion. Treaty of Westphalia
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay…Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Socrates’ ‘know thyself’ says that the self ‘is nothing other than the soul’. Nietsche asserts that we must build and create our identity throughout life.
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Tat tvam asi… That you are…Chandogya Upanishad
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You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it…PAULO COELHO
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after…JRR TOLKIEN
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Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven… JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
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People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better…MARC ANDREESSEN
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I shall…keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart. And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act… RABINDRANATH TAGORE, Gitanjali
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Feeding the hand that bites them
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On the fire and in the frying pan.
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Nepal changed the meaning of ‘glacial pace’. Disastrously…BACHI KARKARIA ALEC SMART SAID.
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You are damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
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A trust is only as honest as its trustees. … ASHWIN SANGHI ON RAM JANMABHOOMI TRUST
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Choose between two ways of losing… ASHWIN SANGHI ON RAM JANMABHOOMI
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Poet Thiruvalluvar, 2000 years ago, named four marks of an able ruler: to raise wealth, to grow it, to guard it, and to share it.
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Paul Simon’s opening line in the song Sound of Silence “Hello, darkness, my old friend.
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The show is on the other foot.
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Saturn can, indeed, devour his own children.
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And what is ready to harvest dictates what reaches the table…LE DOYENNE, SAINT VRAIN, FRANCE
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Tujhe paa lene mein woh betaab kaifiyat kahan/Zindagi woh hai jo teri justjoo mein kat jai…
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Harkat mein barkat hai
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Happiness is in the process; it’s not in destination. Once we ‘achieve’ our ‘goal’ , Joie de vivre dissipates.
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Paane ki aarzoo mein zinda tha/ Jo mil gaya to Zinda na raha
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Jeewan chalne ka naam, chalte raho subaho shaam

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The story of Pinocchio is about a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy.

An old woodcarver named Geppetto makes a puppet named Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Geppetto loves him like a son and sends him to school, hoping he will grow up to be responsible and good.

But Pinocchio is curious, impulsive, and easily influenced. Instead of going to school, he repeatedly gets into trouble. He meets dishonest characters such as the Fox and the Cat, who trick him, and he discovers that his bad choices have consequences. Most famously, Pinocchio’s nose grows when he tells lies.

During his adventures, Pinocchio is helped by the Blue Fairy, who encourages him to be truthful, brave, and kind. He also experiences some frightening consequences for his behavior. In the original story, for example, children who abandon their responsibilities for a life of endless amusement are transformed into donkeys.

Eventually, Pinocchio learns that Geppetto is in danger and goes looking for him. He finds Geppetto inside a gigantic sea creature (often portrayed as a whale in adaptations), and Pinocchio courageously helps him escape.

By the end, Pinocchio has changed. He becomes more caring, hardworking, courageous, and willing to sacrifice himself for his father. As a reward for proving himself, he is transformed from a wooden puppet into a real boy.

The original book, The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, is darker and stranger than the famous Disney version. At its heart, though, it’s a coming-of-age story: Pinocchio becomes “real” by learning responsibility, honesty, empathy, and love—not simply by wishing to be human.

Written and posted by Columnist Kamlesh Tripathi

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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder…RONALD REAGAN
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Never let schooling interfere with education…MARK TWAIN
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When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognise the good things that happen in their lives everyday that the sun rises…PAULO COELHO
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A dollar saved is a quarter earned…JOHN CIARDI
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Meditation depends on strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when it is engaged in work. Particular time is meant for novices…RAMANA MAHARISHI
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive… ELBERT HUBBARD
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The strong is not the one who overcomes the people by his strength, but the strong is the one who controls himself in anger… PROPHET MUHAMMAD (TOI 27/8/26)
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A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa…MARK ZUCKERBERG
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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect…. CHIEF SEATTLE
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How long should a man’s leg be?
Long enough to touch the ground…JD SALINGER
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The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that child like essence of your being, you can stay ‘forever young at heart.’ …WAYNE DYER
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Someone who tells you what to wear will soon also tell you what to think… HOMA NATEQ, IRANIAN HISTORIAN.
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Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers… DANISH WRITER HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON of ‘Literary Fairy Tales.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be… WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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The fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves… WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IN JULIUS CAESAR.
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Posted by Columnist Kamlesh Tripathi