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

830. Truths can’t stay hidden. Lies can’t stay alive.

- Sujit Mukerji

829. Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

828. That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

827. I did not fail. I just found 10.000 ways that don't work.

826. I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

– Blaise Pascal

825. Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.

824. Pessimists are in a win-win situation, whatever happens they are either always right or pleasantly surprised.

823. Serious sincere systematic service surely secures supreme success.

822. Though it's important that people know you, it is more important if they think you are worth knowing.

821. We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

– Blaise Pascal

820. Downs are important to keep us from taking life for granted.

- Sujit Mukerji

819. A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task in an extraordinary situation.

818. Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

817. Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

816. Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

- Donald A. Miller

815. To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

- Robert Brault

814. It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.

813.  If you believe in something, no proof is necessary. If you don't, none is sufficient.

812. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

811. Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fail. Some work. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is doing something else.

- Leonardo da Vinci

810. One’s conduct is invariably always a give-away of one’s background.

- Sujit Mukerji

809. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

-      Plato

808. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

- Ronald Reagan

807. It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better.

806. Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.

- Ayn Rand

805. It's not the burdens of everyday that drive men mad. It is the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

804. Many people chase success. Others pursue money. But I think the happiest people on earth are the ones who have found what is significant for them. The real question of life must be what has significance for you.

803. Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

- Robert Brault

802. There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.

- Sydney Harris

801. Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

-         Robert Brault

800. An open, airy and well-lit environment helps in opening up the mind and attaining a happy and positive attitude.

- Sujit Mukerji

799. There are people who make things happen,
those who watch what happens,
and those who wonder what happened.

798. What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.

797. What are the two magic words that always make a shark happy? “Man overboard.”

796. To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

- Robert Brault

795. Success has made failures of many men.

- Cindy Adams

794. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

- John F Kennedy

793. We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

792. A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

791. What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

790. A happy attitude is energizing. It keeps away laziness.

- Sujit Mukerji

789. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I’m possible'!

– Audrey Hepburn

788. Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

- Sophocles

787. One’s got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can’t put things right in a hole–and–corner way.

- George Orwell

786. You will get what you want, when you stop making excuses on why you don’t have it.

785. The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.

784. Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. The most successful people take action while they’re afraid!

783. Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Bill Gates, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

782. In life you are either a passenger or a pilot, it’s your choice! 

781. The ordinary focus on what they’re getting. The extraordinary think about who they’re becoming. 

780. Our success depends on how cool-minded we are.

- Sujit Mukerji

779. Being the best version of yourself is the most important aspect of your life to master.

- Zac Dixon

778. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

- Napoleon Hill

777. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

- Albert Einstein

776. What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.

- Mignon McLaughlin

775. Endings are easier when you realize that there is no end.

- Raven Mardirosian

774. Recognizing and enjoying the positive things in life can help us deal with stress better.

- Frank Long

773. Yes, accept failure but do not treat it as an outcome.

- Vinnie Fisher

772. A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

- Richard Nixon

771. Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

- Benjamin Franklin

770. A happy attitude gives one a charming personality.

- Sujit Mukerji

769. We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

- Olin Miller

768. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

- David Brinkley

767. Short cuts make long delays.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

766. If you need something done ask a busy man, no one else will have time to do it.

765. Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry.

764. The senses say, “Myself first.” Ethics says, “I must hold myself last.”

- Swami Vivekananda

763. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data

- Arthur Conan Doyle

762. I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

761. The secret of life is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

- Paulo Coelho

760. Satisfaction is the actual wealth.

- Sujit Mukerji

759. Change can come in either of two important ways:

Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

- Dr. Phil

758. The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

- Robert Brault

757. Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.

756. Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

755. All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind.

- Swami Vivekananda

754. He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

- George Herbert

753. You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

- Oprah Winfrey

752. Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde

751. In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

750. If we can do our bit happily, then things will be a lot easier. Again, it’s our choice.

- Sujit Mukerji

749. It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you.

- Lillian Hellman

748. The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

- Harrison Ford

747. As long as you’re moving, it’s easier to steer.

746. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

- Buddha

745. As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

- Leonardo da Vinci

744. Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

- Cale Yarborough

743. In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

742. Grief does not change you... It reveals you.

- John Green

741. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

- Christopher Morley

740. One who can mould oneself according to the circumstances, knows the art of living. Water doesn’t have to depend on the shape of its container.

- Sujit Mukerji

739.  When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy."

They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

- John Lennon

738. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

- Oprah Winfrey

737. When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

- Chris Colfer

736. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

- Norman Vincent Peale

735. If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

- Robert Brault

734. It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white; what matters is how well it catches mice.

- Deng Xiaoping

733. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

- Dr. Johnson

732. I slept and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke and found that life was duty.
- Ellen Sturgis Hooper

731. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

- William Feather

730. Complete control over one’s own senses is true success. What we notice is our choice.

- Sujit Mukerji

729. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

- Abraham Lincoln

728. I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

- Edgar Allan Poe

727. The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

- Paul Tillich

726.  The road to success is wherever people need another road.

- Robert Brault

725. The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.

- B.C. Forbes

724. How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

- Robert Brault

723. I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

- Lauren Bacall

722. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public.

- Ayn Rand

721. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

- Henry Stanley Haskins 

720. An open-minded, honest and true person always feels light and free.

- Sujit Mukerji

719. It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.

- Sydney Smith

718. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

- Socrates.

717. A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

716. Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

- Max L. Forman

715. Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

- Neils Bohr

714. Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

- Robert Brault

713. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

- Amelia Earhart

712. Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.

- Jonatan Mårtensson

711. The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."

- Nancy Barcus