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990. If you are afraid of losing, you will never win.

- Sujit Mukerji

989. Expectation is natural but it might lead to problems.

- Sujit Mukerji

988. Success is in giving, not seeking, satisfaction.

- Sujit Mukerji

987. We should pause to notice, remember and celebrate the good things in life. That will rejuvenate us and then we will face life’s endless challenges more efficiently.

- Sujit Mukerji

986.  Forgiving can be easier if we remember that everyone has limitations and compulsions.

- Sujit Mukerji

985. Different people respond differently to the same situation depending on their respective mindsets.

- Sujit Mukerji

984. It is said that small things should be ignored as trivialities. But seeds are small. And there are killer viruses.

- Sujit Mukerji

983. Smaller things make us feel good or bad at our earlier ages. Blessed are those that retain their earlier responses of feeling good and reject the ‘feel –bad’ factors as trifles.

- Sujit Mukerji

982. Those who believe that rules are for the others, end up crying.

- Sujit Mukerji

981. Dad had a dad. There is always someone better.

- Sujit Mukerji

980. Life has just begun! There is so much to learn …

- Sujit Mukerji

979. If the results are not as expected, obviously you were wrong.

- Sujit Mukerji

978. If you focus on the good side, you’ll feel better.

- Sujit Mukerji

977. If you can’t think/talk/act/move like them, why are you upset when they don’t do it like you?

- Sujit Mukerji

976. There is something respectable in everyone.

- Sujit Mukerji

975. Undue and over reaction can only complicate things further.

- Sujit Mukerji

974. Complete independence is not possible. We have to depend on something/ someone or the other.

- Sujit Mukerji

973. “True love is unconditional.” (What a condition!) Can there be “true love”?

- Sujit Mukerji

972. At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.

-         Aristotle

971. We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

-         William James

970.  Goodness is often exploited, sometimes ignored, at times compensated and seldom rewarded.

- Sujit Mukerji

969. In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs.

- Charlie Chaplin

968. The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

- Ellen Goodman

967. How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

- Robert Brault

966. If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

-Thomas Edison

965. Your value is the product of your thoughts. Do not miscalculate your self worth by multiplying your insecurities.

964. We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree — deeply rooted to withstand all of life's upheavals.

963. Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

- Alexander Pope

962. Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

- John F. Kennedy

961. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

- Robert Frost

960. Appearances are deceptive but do we always remember it?

- Sujit Mukerji

959. It is not enough to sing when the sun shines and the road lies level. We must learn to sing most lustily when the light fades and the mountain is steep.

- Brad Hanson

958. Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

-Thomas à Kempis

957. Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

- Cher

956. The biggest thing separating people from their ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline.

- Chris Baty

955. The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

- Aesop

954.  Can he rectify false weight whose own scales are uncertain? Can you enlighten your neighbor while you yourself have no light?

-  Ramakrishna

953. There are seven things that will destroy us:

Wealth without work;

Pleasure without conscience;

Knowledge without character;

Religion without sacrifice;

Politics without principle;

Science without humanity;

Business without ethics.

-  Mahatma Gandhi

952. That old law about "An eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.

951. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

- Abraham Lincoln

950. Non-availability at home might push one to seek outside and that can lead to complications.

- Sujit Mukerji

949. There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

- Chankya

948. The time is always right to do the right thing.

- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

947. I dwell in possibility.

- Emily Dickenson

946. It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

- Bhagavad Gita

945. If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

944. A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are targeted first.

- Chanakya

943. You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

942. Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

- Aesop

941. No people whose word for ‘yesterday’ is the same as their word for ‘tomorrow’ can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

- Salman Rushdie

940.  What we think, see and hear may be by chance; but what we say, do or the path we take is our choice. That matters.

- Sujit Mukerji

939. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

938. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

- Marcus Aurelius

937. If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

936. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

- Chanakya

935. A duck seems to glide smoothly on water while it is paddling furiously underneath the surface. So, one doesn’t need to show that one is working hard. Or, the hard work before the success is hardly noticed.

934. If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

- Ellen Swallow Richards

933. Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realize that they know nothing.

-  Ramakrishna

932. Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

- Aesop

931. Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

- Jeremy Bentham

930. Do not be suspicious. Just be open-minded. Anything is possible.

- Sujit Mukerji

929. Understand that each crisis in life contains an opportunity, and look for it!

- Don McArt

928. To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

- Robert Brault

927. The toothpaste ain’t going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

- John Ridley

926. Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

- George Santayana

925. Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

- Robert Brault

924. The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

- William Hazlitt

923. Two things are infinite, the universe and the human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein

922. Everyone wants to be accepted by a world that is unacceptable.

921. Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

920. Ego and sentiment are obstacles in the way to success.

- Sujit Mukerji

919. Formal education will earn you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.

918. (Think of oneself as a teakettle.) Though up to its neck in hot water, it continues to sing.

917. Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.

916. It is easy to bring others down to your level, instead of bringing yourself up to their level.

915. Not all those who wonder are lost.

914.  Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

913. Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

912. Ask not how far I must walk, instead say I will walk as far as needed

911. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

- Stephen King

910. Ego and respect are inversely proportional.

- Sujit Mukerji

909. Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

908. The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

- Keanu Reeves

907. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas Edison

906. In a false quarrel there is no true valour.

-William Shakespeare

905. Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains- daisy chains- of interactivity.

-          Andy Warhol

904. Winners lose more than losers. They win and lose more than losers, because they stay in the game.

- Terry Paulson

903. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

-         Mary Tyler Moore

902. What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

901. You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh … it’s as simple as that.

-         Jay Leno

900.  What we do reflects our philosophy.

- Sujit Mukerji

899. It is not doing the things we like to do, but liking the things we have to do. That makes life blessed.

898. Nothing can cause turmoil and the defeat of accomplishment as quickly as disorganization.

897. Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

-         Benjamin Franklin

896. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

895. The paradox of education is precisely that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

- James Baldwin

894. We are the architect of our own hurdles and we are the makers of our own success. 

- Charles Duncan

893. Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.

892. What will matter is not your success but your significance....

- Michael Josephson

891. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

- Carl Sagan

890. Are we really educated?

- Josheca Mukerji

The other day, I saw a car parked outside a gate on which there was a sign which read “no parking”. Just then a man, reading some documents, walked up to the car and got into it. He pulled the car on the road, soon crashing it into another moving vehicle. And then, a stream of curse words, from both the sides, followed.

The man in the car was literate for sure. He could read. But educated? First he parked his vehicle in the no parking area and then the used those words. Should we consider him educated?

Bringing up, moral and mental training is education. According to another dictionary, it is the process of teaching, training and learning. Will it be right if we see education just as the ability to read and write or, in short, literacy? The above definitions imply that there is more to it. Maybe somewhere education is defined as literacy, but I prefer to choose this meaning for education. After all, there should be some word that includes not just literacy but other aspects of learning too.

The aforementioned incident was just one example. There can be thousands more. The best example would be that of hackers. They are, no doubt, very literate but they are not educated enough to know whether what they are doing is correct or not. What’s the use of literacy without education? Just that it enables us to get jobs and earn a livelihood? Can a person be happy only by this? When a person does not know how to conduct himself in life, he can not be happy, no matter what.

Education determines the quality of life. From our earliest days, we are told what to do and what not. Like in schools we have the moral science subject in junior classes. Also, in school we don’t learn to read and write only. We learn time management, co-operation, sacrifice, punctuality, sportsmanship, expression, discipline, civic sense, foresightedness, farsightedness, target fixation and lots more. We, directly or indirectly, come across many situations in school, or other places too, where we have to act wisely. All these come under education. Hence, education is a complete package, and not confined to literacy alone. Hindrances train us. But once we tide over them we forget the lessons learnt. Thus, if education is training, we refuse to get educated.

889. The only successful substitute for brains is silence.

888. The man who said he never had a chance, never took a chance.

887. Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.

886. Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

– Blaise Pascal

885. The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands.

-         Sun Tzu

884. If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?

883. Every noble work is at first impossible.

– Thomas Carlyle

882. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

-         Benjamin Franklin

881. Concentrate all your thoughts upon work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

- Alexander Graham Bell

880. Not everyone can be manipulated or exploited. Why? Only if there is some weakness, like ego, emotion, greed etc., or compulsion, can we be so victimised.

- Sujit Mukerji

879. Technology – good or bad?

- Josheca Mukerji

Technology means the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. So, quite evidently, technology isn’t good or bad in itself. It’s the man behind the tools who determines how he wants to implement his knowledge. So, where’s the technology at fault?

It may be opined that technology is the reason for pollution or for other miss-happenings. But is it? There are 26 alphabets in all. It depends on a person how he uses the alphabets. Not that the alphabets are guilty! Similarly, it’s the person at fault and not the technology!

It may also be countered that had there been no technology, man could never have misused it. Again, taking the prior example, had there been no alphabets, man couldn’t have misused it. But, he couldn’t have used it either! Yet again, it may be contended that it’s better not to use than to misuse. And this just isn’t practical!

Everything depends on how a person uses it. It depends on a person if he uses the water to stay alive or uses it to drown himself and commit suicide. But is it possible not to use the water at all because it can be misused?

Further, it can be argued that only those things should be used that are essential for survival and since, man survived even before technology, it isn’t needed and rather it is causing more harm than good. That means, it is better being a cave-man than using technology. To those who think it is so, practice what you preach and charity begins at home.

All that really counts is balance. Nothing is going to happen by blaming anything. Nobody can ignore the fact that technology has made our lives much easier. Everything comes with a price tag. So does technology. The only thing that can be done is to use technology, or for the matter anything, judiciously and work to ensure that the negative fallouts can be reduced as much as possible.

After all, man has brains and not the technology!

878. There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter.

877. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

-         Hermann Hesse

876. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

- Dolly Parton

875. Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.

- Blaise Pascal

874. Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

873. Many a man thinks he has an open mind when it's merely vacant.

872. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

871. No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate.

-         Antoine De Saint-Exupery

870. Preventive vigilance is sine qua non for equitable growth

- Josheca Mukerji

Absolute freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

-          Former US President,

Ronald Reagan

As rightly said, absolute freedom, which means absence of preventive vigilance leads to the collapse of a system. Our topic speaks of equitable growth. If a system collapses, then how can there be equitable growth?

The word equitable itself implies that there should be a fair deal which means that there should be a balanced approach and certain undesirable factors owing to human failures should not be allowed to go unchecked. That means it is all a game of checks and balances. As we all know, the level of willingness determines the level of success. If equitable growth is desired, it is imperative that there should be a high degree of willingness to ensure fair play and justice. In any organization, there are so many rules and regulations to ensure proper functioning and holistic growth. Obviously, for proper implementation of such rules and regulations, we need monitoring at different levels.

A point can arise here that those responsible to finish off corruption by monitoring people can misuse the power and can be corrupt themselves. But this is where transparency comes in. Ours is a democratic system which means everyone is answerable to someone and, ideally speaking, it should therefore be particularly easy for a democratic country to bring out equitable growth. The answerability or accountability itself acts as a preventive vigilance. As we know, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So, preventive steps should be taken to ensure that power is not kept concentrated in a few hands.

If there is no preventive vigilance,  then that would mean no transparency which in turn would mean complete chaos resulting from corruption, negligence, bias, insincerity, ignorance, lack of interest, favouritism, carelessness, ulterior motives etc.

We keep hearing about so many scams. Proper monitoring of the systems will definitely ensure their proper functioning. There will not be any such unhealthy fall outs.

Conceded, some free- play is required for the smooth running of any machinery but certain precautions are also a must for the continuance of the functioning. If a system is too tight, which is to say that there are too many restrictions, it cannot function at all. Likewise, if the system is too loose i.e. there is insufficient preventive vigilance, it will simply go haywire. In other words, excess of anything is bad. So, we can safely conclude by saying that preventive vigilance, in just the required measure, is absolutely necessary.

  

869. Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

868. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

-         Abraham Lincoln

867.  There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

- Izaak Walton

866. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

865. Advice is the only commodity in the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

864. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Confucius

863. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

-         William Shakespeare

862. The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step.

861. The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

860. The agitated mind misses the target.

- Sujit Mukerji

859. People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

858. Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

857. If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.

856. Use disappointments as material for patience.

855. What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts And doubt their beliefs... Why don't we just decide to have no doubts, and believe our beliefs? Fear and worry is just the misuse of the creative powers. We originally got to dream.

854. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly.

-Voltaire

853. We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

-         Kurt Vonnegut

852. Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

- Richard Bach

851. Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions — the hero and the sidekick.

- Laurence Shames

850. No circumstance can be too pressing for the strong-willed.

- Sujit Mukerji

849. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

848. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

847. Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

846. My physical limitations are forgotten—my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

- Helen Keller

845. The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

– Vince Lombardi

844. The only bad thing about keeping on burning your bridges behind you is that the world is round.

843. Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

- Warren Buffett

842. Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.

841. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

840. Uselessness is always purpose-specific. There is no such thing as total uselessness. There is always some usefulness.

- Sujit Mukerji

839. Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

- David Lynch

838. The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground....

837. After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

836. Accident: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

835. A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.

834. Before a man can wake up and find himself famous, he has to wake up and find himself.

833. A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a wiser man learns from someone else's.

832. Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

– Blaise Pascal

831. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

- Gautama Buddha