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Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.Abhijit Naskar
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An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.E.a. Bucchianeri
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How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellowsAlex Morritt
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Too much study wears the body. BUT the truth refreshes the soul, sustains the spirit for a beautiful body.Lailah Gifty Akita
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If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.Germany Kent
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What a man may value highly, is detestable in God’s sight.Lailah Gifty Akita
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God is a consuming fire.Lailah Gifty Akita
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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.E.a. Bucchianeri
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If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.E.a. Bucchianeri
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The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards youBangambiki Habyarimana
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Imagination is a holy impressions.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Do not spend all your strength to make money.Lailah Gifty Akita
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I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.Abhijit Naskar
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Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.Abhijit Naskar
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Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.Abhijit Naskar
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If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA.Abhijit Naskar
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Failures make character, not success.Abhijit Naskar
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If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle.Lailah Gifty Akita
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When you are wise, peace shall follow.Abhijit Naskar
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Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion — it is a mockery of religion, like it has become today.Abhijit Naskar
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When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society.Abhijit Naskar
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Feeding the ego is starving the wisdom, the choice is yours.Efrat Cybulkiewicz
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Civilized are not those who never make mistakes — civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.Abhijit Naskar
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The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.Abhijit Naskar
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Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.Abhijit Naskar
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The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Don't feel useless. Even a spoilt clock is right twice a day.Unknown
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Joyfully we undertake our daily work.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Uncleanness is the works of the sinful nature.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The fight of faith can only be won by the holy word of God.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Whatever you feel is the force of faith.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The truest family is the family of faith.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Who are we, to pass judgment on one another. When we have once done the same foolish acts.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.Abhijit Naskar
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A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity, but the moment, that person starts to build a wall of separation between the self and the rest of humanity, coaxed by the textual commands of a scripture, the healthy religiousness turns into dangerous fundamentalism, which is a threat to both the self and the society.Abhijit Naskar
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Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long. Jihad or Holy war would keep festering one way or another, until religious fundamentalism is eradicated from the human society. Until the whole humanity learns to scrutinize its most revered scriptures with the sharp tool of reasoning, Jihad will keep on striking over the world. If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or torture another being for holding a different belief system than one's own, then that entity is no being of the civilized human society, it is merely a pest from the stone-age. No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self. There shall be hope for harmony and peace in the world, only when fundamentalism is destroyed forever. Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have to be sacrificed, then be it. But for no Bible, Quran or Gita, can harmony be compromised.Abhijit Naskar
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Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self — in the spirit within, is imperative.Abhijit Naskar
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Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self — in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.Abhijit Naskar
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Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.Abhijit Naskar
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A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fathers or Holy Spirits or Sons it believes in.Abhijit Naskar
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In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.Abhijit Naskar
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The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.Abhijit Naskar
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God lives in and through the human mind, and not in any church, synagogue, temple or mosque.Abhijit Naskar
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All the beauty lies in the sacredness of the heart.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Resentment lies in the heart of fools.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Love is a light of liberty.Lailah Gifty Akita
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There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Meditation is the energy of the mind,Lailah Gifty Akita
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Troubles teaches us what we must know.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.Abhijit Naskar
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They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity.Abhijit Naskar
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The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of human life behaves the same with the scientist, the janitor and the sex-worker.Abhijit Naskar
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One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Knowledge shall set the mind free.Abhijit Naskar
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All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.Abhijit Naskar
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If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.Abhijit Naskar
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The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.Abhijit Naskar
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A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability — where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn — where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society.Abhijit Naskar
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The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon.Abhijit Naskar
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Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.Abhijit Naskar
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This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.Abhijit Naskar
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Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.Abhijit Naskar
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All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.Abhijit Naskar
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Mind is the Alpha — Mind is the Omega. There is nothing else in the pursuit of knowledge. And more importantly, there is nothing else in education. All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.Abhijit Naskar
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Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced.Abhijit Naskar
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Real education leads to the liberation of the mind.Abhijit Naskar
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What one person calls miracle, I call nature.Abhijit Naskar
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No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.Abhijit Naskar
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Imagine the ancient society of India, and in fact all over the world, a few thousands years ago. In those days, rational thinking was quite scarce. Ignorance was the default mode of thinking. Only a handful of individuals were capable of higher intellectual thinking.Abhijit Naskar
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Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception.Abhijit Naskar
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Knowledge is light. God is light. God is knowledge.Lailah Gifty Akita
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A search for knowledge is a search for the truth.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Knowledge is vast like ocean. It is inexhaustible quest!Lailah Gifty Akita
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It is wise to learn from the great sacred-souls.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Without failure, there is no success.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Those who mock at you, shall one day worship you.Abhijit Naskar
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It is not speed that matters, it's persistence.Abhijit Naskar
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The real battle is within yourself.Abhijit Naskar
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It is always, first Self, then everything else.Abhijit Naskar
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Ignorance is the deepest sin of dark doom.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The real certificate is to know Jesus Christ.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.Abhijit Naskar
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The real education never ends. It is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Too much study leads to worn out,Lailah Gifty Akita
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The real education is the reality of how well you live life.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Sow the seeds of weakness and inferiority in the kids and they’ll grow up to be inferior, crawling, insignificant insects. Sow the seeds of courage and they’ll become brave-heart leaders who will one day change the course of human history.Abhijit Naskar
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If you don’t allow one to become a lion, one will become a sheep. And the world is already filled with sheeps, which is the major cause of the society’s intellectual and moral downfall. For a better future to evolve, where humanism will be an all-pervading virtue and separatism will be a matter of ancient history, the world needs lions.Abhijit Naskar
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The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.Abhijit Naskar
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Let go of temporary pleasures for a permanent joy.Lailah Gifty Akita
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There is no substitute for education.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Reading is my breath.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Three powerful d’s of life Dream. Desire. Dare.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Man is not merely born to make money. But to fulfill is mission.Lailah Gifty Akita
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It is fatal to forget the past.Lailah Gifty Akita
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When God opens a door no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Luxury is the enemy of growth. This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child’s mind.Abhijit Naskar
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Luxury is the enemy of growth.Abhijit Naskar