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?
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