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Kr_iyer · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:11 am Post subject:

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick

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O thou unlucky one,
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 8:25 pm Post subject:

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank Howard Clark

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mohandas Gandhi

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas W. Higginson

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson

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O thou unlucky one,
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:06 pm Post subject:

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick

_________________
If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:02 pm Post subject:

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul

Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller

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If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:59 pm Post subject:

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner

Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
Isadora Duncan

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:41 am Post subject:

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. Priestley

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank Howard Clark

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
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srividyaa · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:25 pm Post subject:

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." Swami Vivekananda

Kr_iyer · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:46 pm Post subject:

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock

Some stories are true that never happened.
Elie Wiesel

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Theodor Geisel

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:55 pm Post subject:

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
Robin Williams

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:24 am Post subject:

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
Alexander Chase

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich

One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
Alexander Chase

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:27 pm Post subject:

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P. J. O'Rourke

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
Fred Woodworth

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexander Woollcott

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 7:18 pm Post subject:

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. Priestley

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank Howard Clark

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When you become senile, you won't know it.
Bill Cosby

_________________
If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 6:55 am Post subject:

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mohandas Gandhi

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Mohandas Gandhi

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:19 am Post subject:

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
Arthur M. Schlesinger

Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
Ngo Dinh Diem

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
John Milton

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley

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?
William Shakespeare

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
John McCarthy

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy;
Francis Bacon

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
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Kr_iyer · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:02 am Post subject:

A word about our honesty to the cheating finance ministry

:Honesty Quotes

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
Jose Marti

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime.
Allan Pinkerton

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Tiger Woods

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
Thomas Kretschmann
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
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