TheStar.com - Empowerment or dorm porn?:
Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, sums it up as "the contradictions and evasions and self-deceptions that pass for empowerment."
False Empowerment
Lucky enough to have a hand
Mat kar yakin apne hath ki lakiron pe yaar
Naseeb to unka bhi hota hai jinke haat nahi hote
Don't believe on the lines of your palm, my friend
Even the people without hands also have fate.
-Unknown
Spotted it in the orkut scrapbook of Dua scribbled by Shekhar Prasad.
I think there can't be a greater luck than having two hands.
This blog also reminds me of the song from the hindi movie VIDHAATA.
"Haathon ki chand lakeeron ka, yeh khel hai sab taqdeeron ka.
Taqdeer hai kya mai kya janoo, mai ashique hoon tadbeeron ka"
Governments and Historians
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
This is the first post of mine from w.bloggar tool.
For now, It looks that it will go great.
Let's see. :)
Dead books or Live Minds
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
-Gilbert Highet, writer (1906-1978)
Kind Earth
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
-Douglas William Jerrold
playwright and humorist (1803-1857)
playwright and humorist (1803-1857)
Rocking OneLiners
- Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
- Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.
- Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
- Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its students.
- Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill.
- Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.
- Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
- We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things got worse.
- Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
- Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
- There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.
- Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?
Explanation?
Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.
-Belgicia Howell
Seven Blunders of the World
- Wealth without work
- Pleasure without conscience
- Knowledge without character
- Commerce without morality
- Science without humanity
- Worship without sacrifice
- Politics without principle
-Mahatma Gandhi
Omnipresent CRIME
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
-Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
Useable Research
Science is not for science sake. You do research, publish papers and think the work is over. But I think in developing countries, science is for development. If it doesn’t have impact, it is not useful.
Biologist Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta
Pioneer of the Blue Revolution
Winner of World Food Prize 2005
Pioneer of the Blue Revolution
Winner of World Food Prize 2005
Credit:Indian Express Archive
Life vs. Test Match
Thought # 1.
Life is a Test Match. Don't play it like a One Day. You may get OUT too early.
Thought # 2.
Life is a Test Match of N-innings where N is not decided when the game starts. Keep playing till exhaustion.
Thought #3.
(More later...)
Life is a party
Celebrate Life. You don't know whether you will be invited again on Earth or not. :)
Lessons to learn from Noah's Ark
- Don't miss the boat.
- Remember that we are all in the same boat.
- Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
- Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
- Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
- Build your future on high ground.
- For safety's sake, travel in pairs.
- Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
- When you're stressed, float a while.
- Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
- No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting.
Credit: Wilkinson's Website
What animals may think about humans?
"In the Animal Kingdom everyone is good at something. This is how each species survives. The Grizzly Bear is very strong. The Leopard is very fast. The Porcupine has excellent protection. The Human, my friends, let me be frank, is rather lacking. A strange looking creature with bits of hair stuck in odd places, Humans are a gangly primate whose appearance is much like that of a large plucked chimpanzee."
You are fortunate enough in any case
Misfortune is a hidden fortune for those who believe in them.
Proof
A must read for our generation.
Sin and religion
"Sin has no religion. It leaves its ugly trace on everyone alike. It is up to us whther we will do good deeds and reform ourselves, or sink further our narrow attitudes. Whatever be the prescribed procedure, genuine worship demands two things: faith and patience. These are our greatest aids on our path to the divine."
-Shri Shirdi Sai BabaIs Society a Disease?
Everybody seems to be blaming govt., population, corruption and blah blah blah.
People consider society as a disease and try to keep themselves and their children away from it. They don't know the severity of this or may be they don't want to because it hasn't caught them.
Common Man is as indifferent to society as any politician or a high profiler is.
Then what right do we have to blame anybody.
We feel helpless only when some outsider is burning in a fire. If our own piece of heart is there then our helplessness starts melting into panic induced movement.
I request you to please not throw the blame if not share it.
If you can't cure your society, at least cure yourself and your perspectives.
People consider society as a disease and try to keep themselves and their children away from it. They don't know the severity of this or may be they don't want to because it hasn't caught them.
Common Man is as indifferent to society as any politician or a high profiler is.
Then what right do we have to blame anybody.
We feel helpless only when some outsider is burning in a fire. If our own piece of heart is there then our helplessness starts melting into panic induced movement.
I request you to please not throw the blame if not share it.
If you can't cure your society, at least cure yourself and your perspectives.
All about RUNNING
Just because somebody is running ahead of you doesn't mean that you will lose the race.
Don't stop, keep running.
If the race has just been started, you can't make any assumptions about who will lose in the end.
Don't stop, keep running.
If the race is near to its end, stopping is anyway going to waste all your effort.
Don't stop, keep running.
In the middle of the race!!! "WHY YOU STARTED AT ALL AT THE FIRST INSTANCE IF YOU HADN'T PLANNED TO COMPLETE THE RACE?"
So again, No use of stopping, RUN better every time someone gets ahead of you.
God, thirst and whip
Vous pouvez croire en Dieu de deux façons, ou comme la
soif croit à l'orange, ou comme l'âne croit au fouet.
You can believe in God in two ways, like thirst thinks about
an orange, or like the donkey thinks about the whip.
--Victor Hugo
Une mer calme n'a jamais fait un bon marin.
A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.
-A Proverb
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
-Jimi Hendrix, Rock Star
Cricket and Philosophy
Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
One, who doesn't throw the dice, can never expect to score a six.
Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
Age has been perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
More Crickety...
Wickets are like wives - you never know which way they will turn!
Deep Dasgupta is not a Wicket Keeper, he is a goalkeeper. He must be given a free transfer to Manchester United.
The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
For more
http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~kghia/oneliners.html
- Navjot Singh Sidhu Commentary Collection
The Bachhans in Coffee with Karan
Mann ka ho to achha,
Mann ka na ho to aur bhi achha.
- as told by Amitabh Bachhan in Coffee with Karan
Harivash rai bachhan(father of Amitabh Bachhan) told him
Harivash rai bachhan(father of Amitabh Bachhan) told him
Principles only mean when they are inconvenient to stand by.
- as told by Abhishek Bachhan in Coffee with Karan
AB once told to AB Junior
AB once told to AB Junior
Colours of Life
Happiness keeps you Sweet,
Trials keep you Strong,
Sorrow keeps you Human,
Failure keeps you Humble,
Success keeps you Glowing...
But only God keeps you going.
Learning
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons,especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
-Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (1920- )
Tech rhymes with crime
“No other section of the population avail themselves more readily and speedily of the latest triumphs of science than the criminal class.”
- a Chicago policeman in 1988
Cogitators say
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Gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
-Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for.
-Joseph Addison, writer (1672-1719)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------You can accept defeat or look straight into its eyes, until it blinks and walks away...
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Smiling is infectious; you can catch it like the flu. Someone smiled at me today, and I started smiling too.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
-Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
-Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1995)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------When we take the time to discover the strings, we feel less like a puppet.
- Robert Blondin
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Life is an ice cream, enjoy it before it melts.
Black is a very important color.
It symbolizes achievement, knowledge and its the color of supposed Graduation robe also.
- From the Movie ‘BLACK’
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------The world should remember that I was born.
- From my friend Shaan’s Blog
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Proteus: Marina, Follow your heart. Mine is here in Syracuse. Yours! Yours is sailing with the next tide.
- Movie Sindbad the Sailor of Seven Seas
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------The beauty hidden in poetry
The mystery spun in a story
The sensation embedded in a fiction
The riddle closeted in an article
- Well described :)
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,
chocolate in one hand, Diet Coke in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally
worn out and screaming "Woo-frickin'-hoo!! What a ride!"
- Unknown
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
- Emo Phillips, comedian, actor (1956- )
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Life, a compulsory Marathon
Life is a Marathon that you are bound to run in. Whether you like it or not.
After all, neither was your birth by your will nor you had any choice of worlds. Your track is time. Even the pace of your life is predecided. Neither you can complete the race faster and delve into future earlier than others, nor you can remain in current state for a longer duration. It's not the kind of ground track where you stand for a while in the middle of a race to rest.
Irrespective of what you do, your race starts at your's only cry and it ends with the silence of your last breathe. *
The only choice you have is either enjoy it :) or squall over it :(
*The people who didn't cried on their birth may replace the word "cry" with whatever sound they produced.
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