Category: history
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Art of Exaggeration
There is nothing more convincing than an exaggerated story about rags to riches, nothing to everything, unknown to well known. We all love such stories and jump on supporting the protagonists. Let’s face it everyone would exaggerate about anything to make a point. The point matters. The point will decide who the truth teller is.…
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I still Hate Birthdays
I knew I hate my birthday but didn’t know I hate everybody’s birthday, and this time it was my fiancée’s birthday. Poor soul! She didn’t know – how much I hate birthdays. I learned a life lesson – never say I hate birthdays, and if you do then, be ready to eat cake from the…
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Relationship Advice
Don’t fall in love. Fall off a bridge, it hurts less. You must avoid giving any advice to others, and giving relationship advice is a crime. A crime, even crime patrol denies to telecast. Nobody wants any relationship advice, and they will pass on it to others, and others will pass on to others, and…
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Peer Pressure: The Pet Peeve
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses. – Andrew Lansley. My biggest pet peeve is peer pressure, and it is so compelling – even though I don’t want to do something still, I do anyway. It’s like a gun on my head. Either I can go and…
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Listen to Me
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak – Epictetus. Everybody wants to be heard though, in reality, everybody desires to have listened. If you have something to say and nobody is listening then, it’s far worse than the disappointing ending of the game of…
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Too Easy
Somehow, when everything is too easy, it’s not necessarily the right recipe for success – Debbie Moore. We are living in a weird world where everything is too easy yet, the majority don’t accomplish anything in their life. If you want to become a millionaire by investing in a stock market, it’s too easy, and…
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Immediate Attention Required
“Attention draws things desirable as well as undesirable close.” – Steven Redhead. Attention is one thing which we crave all the time and even in our sleep. Deep down the core of our heart, we always want someone’s attention, even though there is just a look. For that look, we can kill or be killed.…
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Not Good Enough
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt We are living in a world where celebrities don’t feel good enough as they have to be more than that. They need to be a political activist, social activist, and philanthropist. So do we feel that we are good enough? The answer probably…
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The Secret of Stupidity
“Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance – William Gaddis”. With great stupidity, comes a great certainty of happiness. Stupid people are the happiest people on the earth, and for them, every other person is stupid. They are the most fun, and when you talk to them, they will never bore you. They carry a…
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The Pirates of Privacy
Privacy is an illusion created between those with the power and those without (Modified quote from the matrix). The only difference between piracy and privacy is power, the power of bringing down the world on knees. Recently, what’s app announced the revised privacy policy, and people went crazy. It was the declaration that we have…
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