Book of Quotations By Talha Riaz

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CREATED BY: TAYYEB MUBARIK TALHA RIAZ

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INDEX

Quotations are present for the following essays                     

My aim in life(6-8) Ideal student(8-10) My first day at college(10-12) My last day at college(12-13) Visit to a historical place(14) Visit to a hill station(15-16) If I were a millionaire(16) My hero in history(16-18) My favourite book(19-21) Life in a village(21-22) Life in a city(22-24) Horrors of war(24-27) Computer(27-29) Atomic energy(29-31) My favourite teacher(31-32) The Holy Prophet(SAW) (32-33) Our religion(33-35) Modern age and its victories(36) Kashmir issue(37-38) An accident I have witnessed(38-39) Education of women(39-40)

Pollution(40-41) Characteristics of a happy life(42) Scientific Knowledge(43-44) Television(45-46) Courtesy(47-49) A Dream(49-52) Terrorism(52-54) My favourite writer(55-56) Education(57-61) Newspapers(61-62) Cricket match(63-65) Health is wealth(65-68) My hobby(68-70) Muslim Unity(71) My college Library(72-74) A house on fire(74) Drugs(74-75) If I were a Principal(76) The influence of media(76-77) Blessings of nature(78-81) Judicial system of Pakistan(82) Dignity of work(83-85) Inflation(85-87) Industrial exhibition(87) A rainy day(88-89) Energy crisis(89-90) 30

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 Street crimes(90-92)  Autobiography of a book(92-93)  Bad manners(93-95)  The status of a teacher in our society(95-96)  Pakistan as an Ideological(97)  Politics(97-98)  Patriotism(99-101)  Democracy(101-104)  War against terrorism(104-105)  SAARC(106)  Extremism(106-107)  Poverty(108-110)  Child labour(110)  Overpopulation(111-113)  Suicide attacks(113-114)  Role of media(114-115)  Freedom of speech(115-116)  Our examination system(117-118)  Students Union(118-119)  Science is a curse(119-120)  Why I love Pakistan(120)  Picnic(120-121)  Dengue(121)  Traffic system(121-122)  Corruption(122-124) 30

 Technical education(124-125)  Christmas(126-127)  Historical buildings of Lahore(127128)  Internet(128-129)  Unemployment(130)  An ideal teacher(131-132)  My favourite poet(132-134)  Importance of games(134)  Wonders of science(135-136)  My best friend(136-137)  A visit to a museum(137-138)  A hockey match(138-139)  An ideal citizen(139-140) 30

MY AIM IN LIFE 30

“A useless life is an early death.” ~Goethe ~ “People never improve unless they look to some standard or higher example and better than themselves.” ~Tyron Edwards ~ “It matters not how long we live but how.” ~Bailey ~ “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkly, serenely, divinely aware.” ~Henry Miller ~ “The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.” ~Albert Schweitzer ~ “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one” ~Wilhelm Stekel ~ “If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer~

“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.” 30

~Plutarch ~ “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above molarity. Be not simply good; be good for something.” ~Henry David Thoreau ~ “There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.” ~Logan P. Smith~ “The mere act of aiming at something big makes you big.” ~Jawaharlal Nehru~ “An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson~ “Future favours the bold.” ~Anonymous~ “An early death is better than an aimless life.” ~Anonymous~ “A noble aim is simply a noble deed.” ~Anonymous~ “My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.” ~Anonymous~

“Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” 30

~David Frost~ “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” ~Michelangelo~ “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” ~Aristotle~ “Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” ~Henry David Thoreau~

IDEAL STUDENT “I was a great student at a great school.” ~Donald Trump~ “You are always a student, never a master you have to keep moving forward.” ~Comad till~ “An Ideal student puts first things first.” ~Anonymous~

“Fine manners are a stronger bond than a beautiful face. The former binds the latter only attracts.” 30

~Lamas line~ “Better good manners than good looks.” ~Anonymous~ “Civility cost nothing and buys everything.” ~Anonymous~ “He who is firm and resolute in will mould the world to himself.” ~Goethe~ “Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.” ~J. F. Boyes~ “I’m not an educator ….. I’m a learner.” ~Bill Gates~ “Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world.” ~William Orville Douglas~ “The one thing in life that you can change is yourself, but sometimes that makes all the difference to you and the world.” ~Anonymous~

“People spend a lifetime searching for happiness, peace and success. They chase idle dreams, addictions, and religions hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.” ~Anonymous~

“Watch your thoughts they become your words Watch your words they become your actions Watch your actions they become your habits Watch your habits they become your character Watch your character it becomes your destiny” 30

~Anonymous~

MY FIRST DAY AT COLLEGE “He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor command in order to be something.” ~Goethe~ “What is life? It is not to stale about and draw fresh air, or gaze upon the sun it is to be free.” ~Addison~ “No pain no plan no thorns no the one no gall no glory; no cross no crown.” ~Penn~ “It is not helps, but obstacles not facilities but difficulties that make men.” ~W. Mathews~ “How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations and dreams Book of Beginning, Story without End Each maid a heroine and each man a friend” ~Anonymous~

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“College is a foundation of knowledge and students are there to drink.” ~Martin Luther King~ “College is a place where you enjoy your life to the fullest.” ~Anonymous~ “Colleges don’t make fools, they develop them.” ~Richard Steve~ “One funny thing about college life is that teachers make you sleep during the day and your friends don’t let you sleep at night.” ~Anonymous~ “Pleasure refreshes you for hard work and not vice versa.” ~Anonymous~

“The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” ~Albert Camus~ “College is a refuge from hasty judgment.”

~Robert Frost~

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MY LAST DAY AT COLLEGE “How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations and dreams Book of Beginning, Story without End Each maid a heroine and each man a friend” ~Anonymous~ “College is a foundation of knowledge and students are there to drink.” ~Martin Luther King~ “College is a place where you enjoy your life to the fullest.” ~Anonymous~ “Colleges don’t make fools, they develop them.” ~Richard Steve~

“One funny thing about college life is that teachers make you sleep during the day and your friends don’t let you sleep at night.” ~Anonymous~

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“Pleasure refreshes you for hard work and not vice versa.” ~Anonymous~ “There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.” ~Cicero~ “Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart and gather to eyes In looking on the happy autumn fields And thinking of the days that are no more” ~Tennyson~ “The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” ~Albert Camus~ “College is a refuge from hasty judgment.” ~Robert Frost~

VISIT TO A HISTORICAL PLACE “A poor life this if full of care We have no time to stand and stare” ~William Henry Davies~

“Everything has beauty but no one sees it.” 30

~Anonymous~ “History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.” ~Percy Bysshe Shelley~ “History is philosophy teaching by examples.” ~Thucydides~ “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” ~Pearl Buck~ “We are the prisoners of history.” ~Anonymous~ “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” ~George Orwell~

VISIT TO A HILL STATION “A thing of beauty is joy forever.” ~John Keats~ “Beauty (nature), it is the shadow of good on the universe.” ~Gabriela Mistral~

“Nature is a volume of which God is the author.” 30

~Anonymous~ “One touch of nature makes the whole world him.” ~Shakespeare~ “On the idle hill of summer sleeping with the flow of streams.” ~A.E Houseman~ “A visit to hills fills one with the glory and greatness of Lord.” ~J. Harley~ “Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this tone and wine again and studies consistently prove it.” ~H. Fisher~ “A poor life this if full of care We have no time to stand and stare” ~William Henry Davies~ “Everything has beauty but no one sees it.” ~Anonymous~ “Nature has a healing power.” ~William Wordsworth~ “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful for beauty is God’s handwriting.” ~Emerson~ “Beauty needs no ornaments.” ~Anonymous~

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IF I WERE A MILLIONARE “A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich.” ~John Jacob Astor~ “Who wants to be a millionaire?” ~Cole Porter~

MY HERO IN HISTORY “The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.” ~Anonymous~ “Great people aren’t those who are happy at times of convenience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophe and controversy.” ~Martin Luther King~ “Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositions from mediocre minds.” ~Albert Einstein~ “Every man dies only great truly hive.” ~ Braveheart~ “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight.” ~Long Fellow~ “Fame is perfume of heroic deeds.”

~Anonymous~

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“Words are the more powerful drugs used by heroes.” ~Anonymous~ “We may have thunder, we may have rain But great men once departed, will never come again” ~Anonymous~ “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” ~Bob Dylan~ “A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.” ~Anonymous~ “The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.” ~Felix Adler~ “The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.” ~Henry Miller~ “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” ~Joseph Campbell~ “Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.” ~Jet Li~ “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “Hail , ye heroes! The heaven-born band!

Who fought and bled for freedom’s cause” 30

~Anonymous~ “It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.” ~Dolores Ibarrui~ “A hero is the one who does what he can. The others do not.” ~Romain Rolland~

MY FAVOURITE BOOK “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.” ~Abraham Lincoln~ “You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ~C. S. Lewis~ “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” ~Maya Angelou~ “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ~Oscar Wilde~ “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.” ~Oscar Wilde~

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” 30

~Jiddu Krishnamurti~ “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ~Saint Augustine~ “You cannot open a book without learning something.” ~Confucius~

“The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.” ~Confucius~ “Every burned book enlightens the world.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.” ~Henry David Thoreau~ “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” ~Ernest Hemingway~ “A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.” ~John Milton~ “A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.” ~Martin Farquhar Tupper~

“A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.” 30

~Thomas Carlyle~ “Choose an author as you choose a friend.” ~Wentworth Dillon~ “If a book is worth reading , it is worth buying.” ~John Ruskin~ “Some books are undeservedly forgotten ; none are undeservedly remembered.” ~W.H.Auden~ “The proper study of mankind is books.” ~Aldous Huxley~ “Books do not exhaust words ; words do not exhaust thoughts.” ~Anonymous~

LIFE IN A VILLAGE “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” ~Keats~ “Love beauty(nature), it is the shadow of god on the universe.” ~Gabriela Mistral~ “Earth laughs in flowers.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.” ~Julies~

“I’m every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.” 30

~Katy Puny~

“It’s not a global village, but we’re in a highly meter connected globe.” ~Howard Rheingold~ “I stay in France. Better to be the queer of a village than a servant in a kingdom.” ~Emmanuelle Beart~ “If you world be known but not know vegetate in a village. If you would know but not to be known live in a city.” ~Caleb Colton~

LIFE IN A CITY “God made the country, & man made the town.” ~William Cowper~ “The city is not a concrete jingle, it is a human zoo.” ~D. Morris~ “The city is what is because our citizens are what they are.” ~Plato~ “Nature is a fortified magic city.” ~Anonymous~

“A city is a place where there is no need to wait for the next week to get answer to a question.” 30

~Anonymous~

“Cities are just like cat’s eyes they show their beauty at night.” ~Anonymous~ “If you would be known but not know, vegetate in a village but if you know but not to be known, live in a city.” ~Anonymous~ “Courtesy is the noblest weapon to conquer with.” ~Proverb~ “If you can imagine it you can create it. If you can dream it you can become it.” ~Ward William~ “An empty mind is a devil’s workshop.” ~Anonymous~ “A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.” ~Herbert Prochnow~ “A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.” ~Margaret Mead~ “A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.” ~Aristotle~ “A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.” ~Walt Whitman~

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“All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.” ~Peter Conrad~ “Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.” ~Rupert Brooke~ “City life is millions of people being lonesome together.” ~Henry David Thoreau~ “We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.” ~Hubert H. Humphrey~ “We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.” ~Jane Austen~ “We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.” ~John F. Kennedy~

HORRORS OF WAR “War is the trade of kings.” ~John Dryden~

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” 30

~Jimmy Carter~ “All war represents a failure of diplomacy.” ~Tony Benn~ “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower “There never was a good war, or a bad peace.” ~Benjamin Franklin~ “If you think of humanity as one large body, then war is like suicide, or at best, self-mutilation.” ~Jerome P. Crabb~ “Accursed be he that first invented war.” ~Christopher Marlowe~ “When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die.” ~Jean Paul Sartre~ “War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” ~Thomas Mann~ “War is an admission of failure.” ~K. J. Parker~ “All delays are dangerous in war.” ~John Dryden~ “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

~Albert Einstein~

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“In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” ~Winston Churchill~ “In war, truth is the first casualty.” ~Aeschylus~ “War is a severe doctor; but it sometimes heals grievances.” ~Edward Counsel~ “A mind at peace does not engender wars.” ~Sophocles~ “Weakness and ambivalence lead to war.” ~George H.W. Bush~ “The act of war is the last option of a democracy.” ~Joseph C. Wilson~ “Wars of pen and ink often lead to wars of cannon and bayonets.” ~Edward Counsel~ “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.” ~John Steinbeck~ “Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.” ~Homer~ “In war , resolution ; in defeat , defiance ; in victory , magnanimity ; in peace , goodwill.” ~Winston Churchill~ “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ~George Orwell~

“War is too important to be left to the generals.” 30

~George Clemenceau~ “Pick battles big enough to matter , small enough to win.” ~Jonathan Kozol~

COMPUTER “It’s like a light bulb. When it’s broken, unplug it, throw it away and plug in another.” ~Ted Hoff~ “No crash-proof system can be built unless it is made for an idiot.” ~Ellen Ullman~ “The rise of computers … is forcing machinery to adapt to our idiosyncratic humanity.” ~Thomas A.Stewart~ “Computer are like old testament gods; lots of rules & no mercy.” ~Joseph Campbell~ “Computers make it easier to do a lot of things but most of the things they make easier to do don’t need to be done.” ~Aridy Rooney~ “Think? Why think! We have computers do that for us.” ~Jean Rostauel~ “One of the most feared expression in modern times is the computer is sown.” ~Norman Ralph Auguestin~

“Computer has virtually replaced tape recorders.” 30

~Tony Virconti~ “The computing field is always in need of new clinches.” ~Alan Perlis~ “The great thing about a computer is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.” ~Bill Gates~ “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” ~E. W. Dijkstra~ “I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.” ~Isaac Asimov~ “Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.” ~James Magary~

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” ~Ken Olsen~ “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” ~Pablo Picasso~ “The computer is a moron.” ~Peter Drucker~ “In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.” ~Anonymous~

“Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.” 30

~Anonymous~ “Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.” ~Nicholas Negroponte~ “I had a life once. Now I have a computer.” ~Anonymous~

ATOMIC ENERGY “In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation.” ~John F. Kennedy~

“Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.” ~David Sarnoff~ “All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.” ~Ronald Reagon~ “Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy... The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.” ~Frederick Soddy~

“No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears.” 30

~Sir Edward Appleton~ “The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.” ~Sir Ernest Rutherford~ “The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.” ~Nikola Tesla~ “Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has shown to exist in quantities millions of times greater than is liberated by combustion.” ~Arthur Holly Compton~

“We are dabbling in what will always be considered the blackest of black magic. The day will come when people will want to string us up from the nearest lamppost.” ~Joseph Kennedy~ “The human control of atomic energy could virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.” ~Frederick Soddy~

MY FAVOURITE TEACHER

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“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those arts of living well.” ~Aristotle~ “They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.” ~Nicholas Sparks~ “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” ~ Alexander the Great~ “A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” ~Henry Adams~ “The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.” ~Maria Montessori~ “A teacher is the one who, in his youth, admired teachers.” ~H.L.Mencken~ “A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power.” ~Thomas Szasz~ “A teacher affects eternity.” ~Henry Adams~ “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

~Albert Einstein~

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“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” ~Brad Henry~ “The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.” ~Elbert Hubbard~

THE HOLY PROPHET (SAW) “I have studied him-the man in my opinion is far from being an out-Christ. He must be called the savior of humanity.” ~George B. Shaw~

“He was the most faithful protector of those he protected the sweetest & most agreeable in conversation.” ~Stonlly~ “He was the only man in history who was successful on both the religion & Secular level.” ~Publishing Company Ine~ “Muhammad (PBUH) was unable to read or write but he began to dictate those inspired words which would soon revolution a large regiment of truth there is one god.” ~James A~

“Muhammad was not an apparent failure. He was dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually and & Islam went from strength to strength to strength.” 30

~Karren Armstrong~

OUR RELIGION “I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah & Peace.” ~Muhammad Ali~ “The united states is not & never will be at war with Islam.” ~Barak Obama~ “Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I was born again.” ~Jermaine Jackson~

“I saw Islam as the correct way to live & I chose to try to live that may.” ~Kareem Abdul Jabbar~ “Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim democracy likewise individualism.” ~James Buhan~ “We claim Islam as deen or a complete way of life.” ~Pervaiz Mushraf~ “Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.” ~Muhammad Ali Jinnah~

“I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.” 30

~Cat Stevens~ “Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.” ~Pervez Musharraf~ “I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and policy, its culture, its history and its literature.” ~Muhammad Iqbal~ “Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.” ~Muhammad Iqbal~ “Islam expects every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realize our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.” ~Muhammad Ali Jinnah~ “I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.” ~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar~ “Mohammad (P.B.U.H) was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.” ~Karen Armstrong~ “And what is religion you might ask. It’s a technology of living.” ~Toni Cade Bambora~ “As if religion was intended For nothing else but to be mended”

~Samuel Butler~

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“Religion is love; in this case it is logic.” ~Beatrice Webb~ “Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.” ~Douglas Jerrold~

MODERN AGE AND ITS VICTOIRES “Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” ~Ronald Reagan~ “Beauty is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.” ~Naomi Wolf~ “The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.” ~Edmond de Goncourt~

“It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.”

~Henry A. Wallace~

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“Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.” ~Terry Eagleton~ “Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.” ~Pete Waterman~

KASHMIR ISSUE “As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.” ~Li Peng~ “There is tremendous pressure on India and Pakistan from the international community to resolve the dispute ... I can tell you with authority that the Kashmir issue is heading towards a resolution.” ~Yasin Malik~ “We hope that such actions against terrorist activities targeting India, including Jammu and Kashmir, would be pursued vigorously until cross-border terrorism in our country is completely eliminated.” ~Jaswant Singh~ “The United States should have asked India to vacate the Kashmir that it has illegally occupied. We are sons of the soil and fighting for the liberation of our soil.” ~Syed Salahuddin~

“There is a growing realization in South Asia that peace is vital for economic prosperity. An amicable solution to Kashmir is key to peace and development in the subcontinent.” 30

~Ajai Sahni~ “Though there has been no dramatic breakthrough on Kashmir, both sides are reaching for, and plucking, the low-hanging fruit of the peace tree.” ~Uday Bhaskar~

“We sincerely hope that both India and Pakistan can earnestly respect the line of control in Kashmir, resume negotiations as soon as possible, and seek a fair and reasonable settlement of all their differences.” ~Zhang Qiyue~

AN ACCIDENT I HAVE WITNESSED “Beneath this slab John brown is stowed He watched the ads And not the road” ~Ogden Nash~ “In the midst of life, we are in death.” ~Anonymous~ “The web of life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” ~Shakespeare~

“Name the greatest of all inventors, Accidents!” 30

~Mark Twain~ “There is no such thing as accident; it is fate, misnamed.” ~Anonymous~ “I don’t want to die in a car accident. When I die it’ll be a glorious day. It’ll probably be a waterfall.” ~River Pheonix~ “I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.” ~Patricia Highsmith~ “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.” ~Albert Einstein~

EDUCATION OF WOMEN “Give me good mothers; I will give you a good nation.” ~Napoleon~ “It is obligatory for every Muslim (man and woman) to gain/acquire knowledge.” ~The Holy Quran~ “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~Nelson Mandela~ “Children are educated by what the grown-up is, and not by his talk.”

~Carl Jury~

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“Women contemplating marriage should have elementary courses in plumbing, electrical, engineering and house-hold chemistry.” ~Alma Chesnul Moore~

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~Aristotle~ “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” ~Chanakya~ “No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.” ~Nelson Mandela~ “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” ~ Aristotle~ “As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.” ~John Vanbrugh~

POLLUTION “It is not pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air & water that are doing it.” ~Dan~

“There’s so much pollution is the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no flow to put it all. 30

~Robert Orben~

“Environmental pollution is an uncurable disease. It can only be prevented.” ~Bory Commoner~ “Mercury pollution from power plants is a national that requires a national response.” ~Tom Allen~ “The most important Pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed & indirect.” ~Rene Dubos~ “Pollution is forerunner of predation.” ~Kem Haccan~ “Pollution is an unused resource.” ~Anonymous~ “Pollution is nothing but resource we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.” ~Thomas Rolling~ “When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.” ~Emerson~ “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.” ~R. Buckminster Fuller~

“The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.” 30

~Eddie Bernice Johnson~

CHARACTERISTICS OF A HAPPY LIFE “The web of life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” ~Shakespeare~ “The happiness of humankind Consists in rectitude of mind” ~Anonymous~ “The busier you are, the happier you will be.” ~Anonymous~ “Happiness walks on busy feet.” ~Anonymous~ “Happiness is a many station between too little and too much.” ~Chiming Pollock~ “Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.” ~Roosveet~ “Happiness is not a station you arrive at brut a matter of travelling.” ~Margaret~ “Happiness sneaks through a door you didn’t know that you left open.” ~John Barrymore~

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance order, & harmony.” 30

~Thomas Marlon~

SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE “Science is organized knowledge.” ~Herbert Spencer~ “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” ~Adam Smith~ “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” ~John Dewey~ “Art is I, science is we.” ~Claude Bonnard~ “Science does not know its debt to imagination.” ~Anonymous~ “Science never solves a problem without creating 10 more.” ~George Bernard~ “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” ~Carl Sagan~ “Our scientific power has out run our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.~

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“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.” ~Albert Einstein~ “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.” ~Bill Watterson~ “A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.” ~Charles Darwin~ “By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.” ~Galileo Galilei~ “The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.” ~Mark Russell~ “In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.” ~Thomas Huxley~ “The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.” ~Thomas Huxley~

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“A medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well done.” ~Ernie Kovacs~ “All life's answers are on TV.” ~Matt Groening~ “Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.” ~David Frost~ “Television was the ultimate evidence of cultural anemia.” ~Roy A. K. Heath~ “Nothing is real unless it happens on television.” ~Daniel J. Boorstin~ “TV is the chewing gum for eyes.” ~Game Money~ “The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaver of hell of heaven.” ~Melton~ “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those matters don’t mind.” ~Dr. Seuss~

“Forgive your enemies but never ever forget their names.” ~John F Kennedy~

“Children need models rather than critics.” 30

~Joseph Jobbers~ “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.” ~John Lennon~ “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ~Groucho Marx~ “Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.” ~Bill Hicks~ “Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.” ~T. S. Eliot~ “Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.” ~Woody Allen~ “Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.” ~Margaret Mead~ “Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.” ~Laurence J. Peter~

COURTESY

“Civility costs nothing and buys everything.” 30

~Mary Wortley Montagu~ “If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.” ~Francis Bacon~ “Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of pleasing.” ~Lord Chesterfield~ “The right words at the right time can mark wonders.” ~Mark R. Littleton~

“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.” ~Theodore~ “When restraint & curtest are added strength the latter becomes irritable.” ~Mahatma~ “All doors open to courtesy.” ~Thomas Fuller~ “There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.” ~Anonymous~ “Princes of courtesy, merciful proud a strong.” ~Anonymous~ “No one is more insufferable than we who lacks basic courtesy.” ~Bryant H. McGill~ “Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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“He who grows courtesy, reaps friendship and he who plant kindness, gathers love.” ~Proverb~ “The Reward of courtesy is love.” ~Kem Haccan~ “The Man who is master of courtesy is the master of everyone.” ~Lord Halifax~ “Courtesy is much a mark of a gentleman as courage.” ~Rossevelt~ “The grace of God is courtesy.” ~Hilaire Bellock~ “A good deed is never lost Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.” ~Honore de Balzac~ “There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~ “When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.” ~Mahatma Gandhi~ “Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.” ~Theodore Roosevelt~ “Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.” ~Margaret Chase Smith~

“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” 30

~Jacques Maritain~ “Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.” ~John Wanamaker~ “The grace of God is courtesy.” ~Hilaire Belloc~

A DREAM “A dream can be the highest point of a life.” ~Ben Okri~ “In a dream you are never eighty.” ~Anne Sexton~ “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt~

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” ~Walt Disney~ “A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” ~Colin Powell~

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” 30

~Oscar Wilde~ “Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.” ~James Dean~ “Sleep is the best meditation.” ~Dalai Lama~ “My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.” ~Abraham Lincoln~ “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” ~Anatole France~ “Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.” ~Khalil Gibran~ “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” ~Tupac Shakur~

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, selfdiscipline, and effort.” ~Jesse Owens~ “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” ~Les Brown~ “You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

~Abdul Kalam~

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“Do all you can to make your dreams come true.” ~Joel Osteen~ “All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.” ~Jack Kerouac~ “Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~ “Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” ~Henry David Thoreau~ “Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.” ~Edgar Cayce~ “Dreams are necessary to life.” ~Anais Nin~ “In dreams begins responsibility.” ~William Butler Yeats~

TERRORISM “History is a bath of blood.” ~William James~

“The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.” 30

~Joseph Conrad~ “Terror is the fiercest nurse of cruelty.” ~Josiah Henson~ “Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.” ~Christopher Hitchens~ “Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.” ~Alan Keyes~ “Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.” ~Pat Buchanan~

“We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.” ~George W. Bush~ “Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.” ~Jacques Chirac~ “Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere.” ~Horney Shammel~ “The war on terrorism can never be won.” ~Warren Buffett~ “The war against terrorism is terrorism.”

~Woody Harrelson~

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“Killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.” ~Noam Chomsky~ “Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?” ~Rand Paul~ “Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.” ~Al Franken~ “Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.” ~Doc Hastings~

“Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.” ~Harry Belafonte~ “Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.” ~John Shelby Spong~ “The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.” ~Mohsin Hamid~ “When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.” ~Mohsin Hamid~

“An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.” 30

~Mary Douglas~ “Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.” ~Feisal Abdul Rauf~ “Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.” ~Walter Isaacson~

MY FAVOURITE WRITER “I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.” ~Stephen King~ “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.” ~Ernest Hemingway~ “If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~Somerset Maugham~ “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

~Herman Melville~

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“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.” ~Anton Chekhov~ “First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!” ~Ray Bradbury~ “Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.” ~Willa Cather~ “Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.” ~Ayn Rand~ “People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.” ~Isaac Asimov~ “The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.” ~William Faulkner~ “Writing is its own reward.” ~Henry Miller~ “Writers are always selling somebody out.” ~Joan Didion~ “Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.” 30

~Edgar Rice Burroughs~

EDUCATION “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~Nelson Mandela~ “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” ~Albert Einstein~ “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~Aristotle~ “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” ~Oscar Wilde~ “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” ~Robert Frost~ “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

~Benjamin Franklin~

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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” ~Aristotle~ “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” ~Chanakya~ “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats~ “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” ~John F. Kennedy~ “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” ~Victor Hugo~ “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” ~Anthony J. D'Angelo~ “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ~John Dewey~ “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” ~George Washington Carver~ “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” ~Carl Rogers~ “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” ~Will Durant~

“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.” 30

~Robert Frost~ “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” ~Plato~ “I am a part of everything that I have read.” ~Theodore Roosevelt~ “Change is the end result of all true learning.” ~Leo Buscaglia~ “A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” ~Horace Mann~ “Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” ~Malcolm Forbes~ “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” ~Edward Everett~ “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” ~Sydney J. Harris~ “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” ~Gilbert K. Chesterton~ “Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.” ~Daniel J. Boorstin~

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” 30

~Abigail Adams~ “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” ~B. F. Skinner~ “To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.” ~A. A. Milne~ “Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.” ~Robert Anthony~ “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” ~Robert M. Hutchins~ “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” ~William S. Burroughs~ “Education is all a matter of building bridges.” ~Ralph Ellison~ “Education is the transmission of civilization.” ~Will Durant~ “I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.” ~Annie Dillard~ “All real education is the architecture of the soul.” ~William Bennett~ “Man is what he reads.”

~Joseph Brodsky~

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“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” ~Allan Bloom~

“The willingness to learn new skills is very high.” ~Angela Merkel~ “I have never let my school interfere with my education.” ~Mark Twain~ “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” ~Malcolm X~ “Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.” ~Mary Wollstonecraft~

NEWSPAPERS “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ~Thomas Jefferson~ “I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.” ~Will Rogers~ “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

~Napoleon Bonaparte~

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“No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.” ~Charles Spurgeon~ “Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer~ “Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.” ~Charles Lamb~ “The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.” ~George Harrison~ “Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.” ~Fuzzy Zoeller~ “I'm naturally curious, and I read four newspapers a day.” ~Eli Broad~ “A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.” ~Bill Bryson~ “The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.” ~Anne Sullivan~

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CRICKET MATCH “What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man, I owe it to sport.” ~Albert Camus~ “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” ~Proverb~ “If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation.” ~Bophop~ “Sport is a preserver of health.” ~Keats~ “Winning means you're willing to go longer,work harder, and give more than anyone else.” ~Vince Lombardi~ “Pain is only temporary but victory is forever.” ~Jeremy H. ~ “If you can accept losing, you can't win.” ~Vince Lombardi~ “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” ~Vince Lombardi~ “Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.” ~Charles O. Finley~ “Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.”

~Marcus Valerius Martial~

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“Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an IndiaPakistan match the pressure is doubled.” ~Imran Khan~ “I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.” ~Sachin Tendulkar~ “My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.” ~Sachin Tendulkar~ “Cricket is basically baseball on valium.” ~Robin Williams~ “I do love cricket - it's so very English.” ~Sarah Bernhardt~ “Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.” ~George Mikes~ “Cricket was my reason for living.” ~Harold Larwood~ “The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.” ~Imran Khan~

“To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.” ~Shane Warne~

“At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.” 30

~Suresh Raina~ “Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.” ~Saina Nehwal~ “Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.” ~Harsha Bhogle~

HEALTH IS WEALTH “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” ~Mahatma Gandhi~ “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity." ~John F. Kennedy~ "The higher your energy levels, the more efficient your body, the more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results." ~Anthony Robbins~

“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life."

~William London~

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"If you have health, you will probably be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want." ~Elbert Hubbard~ “He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything.” ~A. Robbins~ “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” ~World Health Organization~ “Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.” ~James H. West~ “The wish for healing has always been half of health.” ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca~ “Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.” ~George Bernard Shaw~ “Your body hears everything your mind says.” ~Naomi Judd~ “If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.” ~Robin Wrigh~

“A healthy outside starts from the inside.” ~Robert Urich~

“The body is a sacred garment.”

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~Martha Graham~ “I stand before you a totally healthy person.” ~Melissa Etheridge~ “I'm still healthy as can be.” ~Darrell Royal~ “Healthy people live with their world.” ~Anne Wilson Schaef~ “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” ~Buddha~ “Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.” ~Buddha~ “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” ~Billy Graham~ “The first wealth is health.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.” ~Thomas Carlyle~ “Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.” ~Plato~

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“An empty mind is a devil’s workshop.” ~Proverb~ “Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby like stamp collecting.” ~Mason Cooley~ “A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.” ~Phyllis McGinley~ “Beware the hobby that eats.” ~Benjamin Franklin~ “My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.” ~Joel Osteen~ “Life's a hobby.” ~Joshua Lederberg~

Gardening “He who plants a garden plants happiness.” ~Anonymous~

“Where flowers bloom so does hope.” ~Lady Bird Johnson~ “Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.” ~Anonymous~ “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

~William Wordsworth~

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“All gardeners know better than other gardeners.” ~Proverb~ “Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription ... and with no limit on dosage.” ~Anonymous~ “One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.” ~W. E. Johns~

Books “A great book should leave you with many experiences.” ~William styson~ “Books are the quietest and the most constant of friends.” ~Anonymous~ “Think before you speak. Read before you speak.” ~Anonymous~

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” ~Sir Francis Bacon~

Other “Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.” ~Henry Rollins~ “It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.” ~Mandy Moore~

“TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.” 30

~Andy Cohen~ “All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.” ~John Mellencamp~ “I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.” ~Jim Sullivan~ “Music to me is something I did as a hobby.” ~Pitbull~ “I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.” ~Ronnie Dunn~ “Decorating has always been my hobby.” ~Lee Radziwill~

MUSLIM UNITY “In union there is strength.” ~Anonymous~ “United we stand, divided we fall.” ~Anonymous~ “There is no Islam without unity, no unity without leadership, and no leadership without obedience.” ~Umar ibn al-Khattab~

“The Muslim ummah cannot take another war. Let’s unite on our common grounds rather than focus on our differences. Let us focus on what we agree upon and negotiate matters based upon them. You will find that most of these differences will begin to melt away.” 30

~Shaykh Waleed Bassyouni~ “And hold fast, all together, by the rope which God (stretches out for you), and be not divided among yourselves; and remember with gratitude God’s favor on you.” ~The Holy Quran~ “Obey Allah and His Messenger (‫ )صلى ال عليه وآله وسلم‬and do not quarrel among yourselves lest you lose heart and your momentum disappear. And be steadfast. Allah is with the steadfast.” ~The Holy Quran~

MY COLLEGE LIBRARY “A library is thought in cold storage.” ~Herbert Samuel~ “Everything you need for letter future and success has already been done. All you have to do is go to the library.” ~Henri Frederic A~ “A good book is the same today and forever.” ~Anonymous~ “Come and take choice of my entire library. And so beguile they sorrow.”

~Shakespeare~

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“If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero~ “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” ~Frank Zappa~ “A library is a delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.” ~Norman Cousins~ “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.” ~Henry Ward Beecher~

“A library implies an act of faith.” ~Victor Hugo~ “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” ~Jorge Luis Borges~ “Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.” ~Anatole France~ “A man will turn over half a library to make one book.” ~Samuel Johnson~ “Your library is your paradise.” ~Desiderius Erasmus~

“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.” 30

~Carl T. Rowan~ “A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.” ~Cornelia Funke~ “Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.” ~Peter Singer~ “Your library is your portrait.” ~Holbrook Jackson~ “That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.” ~Aphra Behn~ “Why buy a book when you can join a library.” ~Ricky Gervais~ “A library is like an island in the middle of a vast area of ignorance.” ~Anonymous~ “He who lends a book is an idiot but he who returns a book is more of an idiot.” ~Anonymous~

A HOUSE ON FIRE “In the midst of life, we are in death.”

~Anonymous~

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“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it." ~Tennessee Williams~

DRUGS “Cocaine—such a perfunctory, unintelligent drug. Ideal for those who seek euphoria and refuse to look inward.” ~Luisa Valenzuela~ “Drugs are the greatest threat to our national security.” ~Jesse Jackson~ “The most deadly thing about cocaine is that it separates you from your soul.” ~Quincy Jones~ “Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.” ~John Hardwick~ “Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.” ~Lily Tomlin~ “Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're the scenic route.” ~Anonymous~ “Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window except that the birds might eat them.”

~Martin H. Fischer~

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“A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.” ~Eric Hodgins~ “It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.” ~Proverb~ “Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.” ~Bob Marley~

IF I WERE A PRINCIPAL “The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.” ~Jean Racine~ “We talk on principal, but act on motivation.” ~Walter Savage Landor~ “You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.” ~Eli Broad~

THE INFLUENCE OF MEDIA “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”

~Jim Morrison~

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“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the media.” ~Noam Chomsky~ “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ~Malcolm X~ “All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.” ~Marshall McLuhan~ “Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.” ~Noam Chomsky~ “Don't hate the media, become the media.” ~Jello Biafra~ “The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.” ~Tom Stoppard~ “What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.” ~W. H. Auden~ “Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.” ~Simon Mainwaring~ “Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.” ~Allen Ginsberg~

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BLESSINGS OF NATURE “Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings” ~William Cullen Bryant~ “I am far more concerned about being in tune with nature than copying it.” ~Georges Braque~ “Nature admits no lie.” ~Thomas Carlyle~ “Nature abhors a vacuum.” ~Francois Rabelais~ “Nature can do more than physicians.” ~Oliver Cromwell~ “Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music.” ~James Abbott McNeill Whistler~ “Nature has always had more power than education.” ~Voltaire~ “Nature is but a name for an effect

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Whose cause is God”

~William Cowper~

“Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.” ~Isaac Newton~ “How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!” ~Emily Dickinson~ “Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.” ~Standing Bear~ “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” ~John Muir~ “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” ~John Keats~ “The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.” ~Anonymous~ “Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.” ~Juvenal~ “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature more.” 30

~George Gordon~ “To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” ~Jane Austen~ “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~Lao Tzu~ “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ~William Shakespeare~ “I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me.” ~William Hazlitt~ “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” ~Albert Einstein~ “Nature is my medicine.” ~Sara Moss-Wolfe~ “Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature.” ~Kelly Sheaffer~ “If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” ~Vincent Van Gogh~ “Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.” ~Alfred Billings Street~

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“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” ~John Burroughs~ “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.” ~Francis Bacon~ “Nature is the art of God.” ~Thomas Browne~ “Nature never goes out of style.” ~Anonymous~ “Nature is a writer's best friend.” ~Agave Powers~ “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” ~Socrates~ “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.” ~Henry David Thoreau~

JUDICIAL SYSTEM OF PAKISTAN 30

“True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.” ~Jonathan Sacks~ “An important and fundamental premise of the judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.” ~DMX~ “The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.” ~Irving R. Kaufman~ “The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.” ~Leopoldo Lopez~ “Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.” ~John Ensign~ “The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.” ~James Toback~

DIGNITY OF WORK 30

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” ~Confucius~ “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.~ “Nothing will work unless you do.” ~Maya Angelou~ “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.” ~Sam Ewing~ “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” ~Benjamin Franklin~ “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” ~Robert Frost~ “Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.” ~Henry David Thoreau~ “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” ~Elbert Hubbard~

“There is no substitute for hard work.” 30

~Thomas A. Edison~ “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” ~Anne Frank~ “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” ~Rumi~ “We work to become, not to acquire.” ~Elbert Hubbard~ “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” ~Samuel Goldwyn~ “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” ~Pablo Picasso~ “Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.” ~Pablo Picasso~ “When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.” ~Henry J. Kaiser~ “The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.” ~Ginger Rogers~ “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” ~Horace~ “You're blessed if you have the strength to work.” ~Mahalia Jackson~ “To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” ~Pearl S. Buck~

‘Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.” 30

~George Sand~ “Work is much more fun than fun.” ~Noel Coward~ “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” ~Harry Golden~ “Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.” ~Marc Chagall~

INFLATION “Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.” ~Ronald Reagan~ “Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.” ~Milton Friedman~ “By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” ~John Maynard Keynes~ “Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.” ~Robert Orben~

"Inflation is a disease, a dangerous and sometimes fatal disease, a disease that if not checked in time can destroy a society." 30

~Milton Friedman~ "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." ~Ernest Hemingway~ “There is no stable trade-off between inflation and unemployment.” ~Milton Friedman~ “It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.” ~Thomas Sowell~ “Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.” ~Sam Ewing~ “Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.” ~Robert Orben~ “Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it.” ~Frederick Leith-Ross~

“We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing.” ~Josh S. Weston~ “Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth”

~John Maynard Keynes~

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“Inflation is the senility of democracies.” ~Sylvia Townsend Warner~

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION “A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein~ “Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.” ~Emily Post~

A RAINY DAY "Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about Learning to Dance In The Rain." ~Vivian Greene~

"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger." 30

~Saint Basil~ “If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?” ~Tom Barrett~ “After the rain cometh the fair weather” ~Anonymous~ “Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.” ~Edmund Waller~ “My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.” ~Anne Lamott~ “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ~Rabindranath Tagore~ “The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~ “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” ~Langston Hughes~ “Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” ~Roger Miller~ “Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.” ~John Updike~

“If you think it's going to rain, it will.” 30

~Clint Eastwood~ “I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.” ~Katherine Mansfield~

ENERGY CRISIS “We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.” ~Margaret Head~ “We need economically and environmentally attractive alternative fuels, and those that meet these criteria will succeed in a free marketplace.” ~Lee.R.Raymond~ “The basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don’t know how to use energy, or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves.” ~Wendell Berry~

STREET CRIMES

“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists.” 30

~Albert Camus~ “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” ~Aristotle~ “Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.” ~H.G. Wells~ “From each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies” ~Pabloneruda~ No crime is so great as daring to excel. ~Winston Churchill~

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” ~Hunter S. Thompson~ “There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.”

~Noam Chomsky~

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“Poverty is the mother of crime.” ~Marcus Aurelius~ “Fear follows crime and is its punishment.” ~Voltaire~ “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” ~Honore de Balzac~ “The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte~ “He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.” ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca~ “Crime is a product of social excess.” ~Vladimir Lenin~ “He who allows oppression shares the crime.” ~Desiderius Erasmus~ “Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.” ~John Ruskin~ “Not failure, but low aim, is crime.” ~James Russell Lowell~ “Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.” ~H. G. Wells~ “Crime is naught but misdirected energy.” ~Emma Goldman~

“If you commit a crime, you're guilty.” 30

~Rush Limbaugh~ “A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.” ~Jesse Ventura~ “The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.” ~J. Edgar Hoover~

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BOOK “A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.” ~John Milton~ “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.” ~Oscar Wilde~ “Every burned book enlightens the world.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” ~Ernest Hemingway~ “A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.” ~Martin Farquhar Tupper~ “Choose an author as you choose a friend.” ~Wentworth Dillon~

“Some books are undeservedly forgotten ; none are undeservedly remembered.” 30

~W.H.Auden~

BAD MANNERS “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.” ~Laurence Sterne~ “Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.” ~Henry Ward Beecher~ “The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.” ~Kahlil Gibran~ “Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.” ~Rosalind Wiseman~ “You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.” ~Lillian Gish~ “Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.” ~Bryant H. McGill~ “Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.” ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~

“Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.” 30

~Bryant H. McGill~ “Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.” ~Margaret Walker~ “An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” ~Robert A. Heinlein~ “Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.” ~Benjamin Franklin~ “Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.” ~Solomon Ibn Gabirol~ “Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.” ~Henry Ward Beecher~ “Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.” ~Honore de Balzac~ “Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” ~Clarence Thomas~

THE STATUS OF A TEACHER IN OUR SOCIETY

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those arts of living well.” 30

~Aristotle~ “They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.” ~Nicholas Sparks~ “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” ~ Alexander the Great~

“A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” ~Henry Adams~ “The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.” ~Maria Montessori~ “A teacher is the one who, in his youth, admired teachers.” ~H.L.Mencken~ “A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power.” ~Thomas Szasz~ “A teacher affects eternity.” ~Henry Adams~ “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” ~Albert Einstein~

“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” 30

~Brad Henry~ “The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.” ~Elbert Hubbard~

PAKISTAN AS AN IDEOLOGICAL “You have your ideology and I have mine.” ~Khalil Gibran~ “Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.” ~Muhammad Ali Jinnah~ “Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.” ~P. J. O'Rourke~ “The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.” ~Hannah Arendt~ “The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.” ~Tom Robbins~

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“Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.” ~Bill Moyers~

“Man is by nature a political animal.” ~Aristotle~ “An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.” ~Albert Einstein~ “The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.” ~Aristotle~ “I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.” ~Mahatma Gandhi~ “Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.” ~Aristotle~ “Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.” ~Milton Friedman~ “There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”

~Benjamin Disraeli~

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“No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.” ~Vladimir Lenin~ “A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.” ~Harry S. Truman~

PATRIOTISM “I only regret that I have only one life to lose for my country.” ~Nathan Hale~ “Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish With my country was my unalterable determination.” ~John Adams~ “Such is the patriot’s boast where’re we roamed; his first best country is at home.” ~Oliver Goldsmith~ “The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” ~Thomas Paine~ “The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.” ~Thomas Campbell~ “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” ~Thomas Jefferson~ “Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”

~Oscar Wilde~

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“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. ~Guy de Maupassant~ “Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.” ~Charles de Gaulle~ “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” ~Edward Abbey~ “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.” ~Mark Twain~ “If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.” ~Ronald Reagan~ “Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.” ~George Orwell~ “The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.” ~George McGovern~ “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” ~Samuel Johnson~ “It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.” ~Alfred Adler~

“Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.” 30

~Henry Bolingbroke~ “Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.” ~Ron Paul~ “Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.” ~Henry Louis Gates~

DEMOCRACY “In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.” ~Aristotle~ “Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.” ~Plato~ “The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.” ~Charles Bukowski~

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“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” ~Alexis de Tocqueville~ “Democracy is in the blood of Muslims, who look upon complete equality of manhood mankind… and believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.” ~Quad-e-Azam~ “Democracy is the best revenge.” ~Asif Ali Zardari~ Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ~H.L. Mencken~

“A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.” ~Charles W. Pickering~ “The first duty of a man is to think for himself.” ~Jose Marti~ “Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.” ~Paul Wellstone~ “Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.” ~Aung san Suu kyi~ “Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.”

~Kem Haccan~

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“Democracy works when people claim it as their own.” ~Bill Moyers~ “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” ~Winston Churchill~ “Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” ~Oscar Wilde~ “The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.” ~Mahatma Gandhi~ “Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” George Bernard Shaw “Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” George Bernard Shaw “Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.” ~Bertrand Russell~ “Democracy passes into despotism.” ~Plato~ “Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.” ~Plato~ “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”

~H. L. Mencken~

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“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” ~James Russell Lowell~ “It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.” ~Tom Stoppard~ “Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.” ~Benito Mussolini~ “Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.” ~Reinhold Niebuhr~ “Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.” ~Benazir Bhutto~

WAR AGAINST TERRORISM “War is the trade of kings.” ~John Dryden~ “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ~George Orwell~ “Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.” ~Christopher Hitchens~ “Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.”

~Alan Keyes~

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“Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.” ~Pat Buchanan~ “We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.” ~George W. Bush~ “The war against terrorism is terrorism.” ~Woody Harrelson~ “Killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.” ~Noam Chomsky~ “Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere.” ~Horney Shammel~ “The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.” ~Mohsin Hamid~ “When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.” ~Mohsin Hamid~

SAARC “This 13th SAARC is being held in propitious circumstances. We are witnessing new hope across the subcontinent.” ~Shaukat Aziz~ “That the SAARC summit is taking place at all is an achievement but I am not overly optimistic.”

~Mohammad Zamir~

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“SAARC has not achieved much because it is our common legacy that we are living with mutual distrust but despite all its shortcomings and setbacks, it is still a source of stability in the region.” ~Mohammad Zamir~

EXTREMISM “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” ~Barry Goldwater~ “Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.” ~John W. Gardner~

“Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.” ~Hillary Clinton~ “Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith’.” ~Brene Brown~

“It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.” 30

~Jeffrey Kluger~ “Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.” ~Feisal Abdul Rauf~ “A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.” ~Benazir Bhutto~ “Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.” ~Benazir Bhutto~ “The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.” ~Joichi Ito~

POVERTY “Poverty pursues the poor.” ~Anonymous~ “Actually we are slaves to the cost of living.” ~Carolina Maria De Jesus~

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” 30

~Mahatma Gandhi~ “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.” ~Victor Hugo~ “Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.” ~Khalil Gibran~ “Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.” ~Khalil Gibran~ “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” ~James A. Baldwin~ “Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” ~Grace Abbott~ “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” ~Mother Teresa~ “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” ~Mother Teresa~ “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” ~Mahatma Gandhi~

“The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.” 30

~Plato~ “Poverty is the mother of crime.” ~Marcus Aurelius~ “You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.’ ~P. J. O'Rourke~ “It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.” ~Cat Stevens~ “If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.” ~Ali ibn Abi Talib~ ‘Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.” ~Milton Berle~ “Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.” ~Bertolt Brecht~ “There is something about poverty that smells like death.” ~Zora Neale Hurston~ “Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.” ~Jeff Bridges~ “Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.” ~Bertolt Brecht~

CHILD LABOUR

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“Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.” ~Francis Bacon~ “You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.” ~Michael Moore~ “Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” ~Grace Abbott~ “If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.” ~Alexis Herman~

OVERPOPULATION “A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.” ~Edward Abbey~ “Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.” ~Henri Bergson~

"Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive [overpopulation]. Convenience and decency cannot survive [overpopulation]. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears." 30

~Isaac Asimov~ "The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman - and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem." ~Lyndon B. Johnson~ "Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we posses. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victim." ~Martin Luther King Jr.~ “The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.” ~Alexandra Paul~ “If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.” ~B.F. Skinner~ “When the family is small, whatever little they have they are able to share. There is peace.” ~Philip Njuguna~ “Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.” ~Thomas Robert Malthus~

“Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.” 30

~Jacques Cousteau~ “Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of the problem.” ~David Brower~ “Overpopulation is one of the greatest threats to human nature.” ~Joe Rogan~ “The point of population stabilization is to reduce or minimize misery.” ~Kem Haccan~ “Overpopulation of the earth is a danger to the planet's lifesupport system and to the people themselves.” ~Anonymous~ “Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.” ~Warren Christopher~ “You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.” ~Molly Ivins~ “The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.” ~Alexandra Paul~

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“On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.' ~Mitt Romney~ “The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.” ~Salman Rushdie~ “I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.” ~Eli Roth~ “The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.” ~Stanley Baldwin~ “We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.” ~Aldrich Ames~

ROLE OF MEDIA “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”

~Jim Morrison~

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“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the media.” ~Noam Chomsky~ “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ~Malcolm X~ “All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.” ~Marshall McLuhan~ “Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.” ~Noam Chomsky~ “Don't hate the media, become the media.” ~Jello Biafra~ “The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.” ~Tom Stoppard~ “What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.” ~W. H. Auden~ “Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.” ~Simon Mainwaring~ “Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.” ~Allen Ginsberg~

FREEDOM OF SPEECH 30

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ~George Washington~ “It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.” ~Mark Twain~ “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” ~Soren Kierkegaard~ “I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.” ~Jimmy Wales~ “Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.” ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti~ “Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.” ~Frank Murphy~ “Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.” ~Brad Thor~ “I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.” ~Stockwell Day~

“It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.” 30

~Leo McKern~ “The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.” ~Alan Dershowitz~ “I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.” ~Kirk Cameron~ “We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.” ~Boyle Roche~ “I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.” ~Teresa Heinz~

OUR EXAMINATION SYSTEM “There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.” ~Mencius~ “Learn something new every day under the sun. You will never get old if you do.” ~Lois Bey~ “Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.”

~Pete Seeger~

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“Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.” ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh~ “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” ~David Bly~ “The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.” ~Proverb~ “You’re never a loser til you quit trying.” ~Anonymous~

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~Thomas Edison~ “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti~

STUDENTS UNION “Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~Albert Camus~

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~Arnold H. Glasow~ “A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” ~William Penn~ “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” ~Muhammad Ali~ “Friends are like stars, you do not see them every time but you know that they are there” ~Anonymous~ “True friends are like diamonds; precious and rare. False friends are like leaves; found everywhere.” ~Anonymous~

SCIENCE IS A CURSE

“Science never solves a problem without creating 10 more.” ~George Bernard~ “Our scientific power has out run our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.~

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~Thomas Huxley~ “Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.” ~Bertrand Russell~ “A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.” ~Charles Darwin~

“The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.” ~Gilbert K. Chesterton~

WHY I LOVE PAKISTAN “More deadly than a serpeant’s tooth is an ungrateful child.” ~Anonymous~

PICNIC “A poor life this if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare”

~W.H.Davies~

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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” ~Anonymous~ “Though nothing can bring back the hour; of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.” ~William Wordsworth~ “Beauty needs no ornaments.” ~Anonymous~ “Nothing's better than a picnic.” ~Zooey Deschanel~ “I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.” ~Bess Truman~

DENGUE “Prevention is better than cure.” ~Proverb~

TRAFFIC SYSTEM “Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.” ~Margaret Thatcher~

“Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.” 30

~Taylor Swift~ “Traffic was very, very free. It was great.” ~Jim Capaldi~

“Traffic terrifies me.” ~Moby~ “My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.” ~Evel Knievel~ “Traffic signals are just rough guidelines.” ~David Letterman~ “There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic.” ~Joe Montana~

CORRUPTION “If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.” ~Abdul Kalam~ “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” ~Kurt Cobain~

“The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.” 30

~Frank Serpico~

“Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.” ~Charles Caleb Colton~ “It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.” ~Charles de Montesquieu~ “In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.” ~Tacitus~ “Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.” ~Pratibha Patil~ “Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.” ~Eduard Shevardnadze~ “The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.” ~David Hume~ “Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.” ~Edward Gibbon~

“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.” 30

~Georges Bernanos~ “Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.” ~Imran Khan~

“There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.” ~A. K. Antony~ “Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.” ~Vladimir Putin~ “The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.” ~Alan Bullock~ “Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.” ~James Thomson~

TECHNICAL EDUCATION “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” ~Albert Einstein~ “The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.” ~John F. Kennedy~

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” 30

~Gertrude Stein~ “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~Arthur C. Clarke~ “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” ~Bill Gates~ “Men have become the tools of their tools.” ~Henry David Thoreau~ “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ~Aldous Huxley~ “We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.” ~Carl Sagan~ “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” ~Richard P. Feynman~ “What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.” ~Arnold H. Glasow~ “Technology has to be invented or adopted.” ~Jared Diamond~ “The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.” ~William S. Burroughs~

“I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.” 30

~Deepak Chopra~

CHRISTMAS “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” ~Roy L. Smith~ “Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” ~Calvin Coolidge~ “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.” ~Dale Evans~ “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” ~Benjamin Franklin~ “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” ~Norman Vincent Peale~ “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” ~Charles Dickens~ “Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.” ~Edna Ferber~ “Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.”

~Gary Allan~

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“Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.” ~Victor Borge~ "At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” ~Thomas Tusser~ “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” ~Alexander Smith~ “Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.” ~Garry Moore~ “I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.” ~Ashley Tisdale~ “Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.” ~Katharine McPhee~ “I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.” ~Alison Sweeney~

HISTORICAL BUILDINGS OF LAHORE “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” ~Winston Churchill~

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.” 30

~Winston Churchill~ “Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” ~Edmund Burke~ “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte~ “History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” ~Alexis de Tocqueville~ “History never looks like history when you are living through it.” ~John W. Gardner~ “The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.” ~A. Whitney Brown~

INTERNTET “The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.” ~Eric Schmidt~ “The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” ~Bill Gates~

“It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.” 30

~Steven Wright~ “The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.” ~Peter Drucker~ “The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.” ~Noam Chomsky~ “The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.” ~Dave Barry~ “The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.” ~Jon Stewart~ “The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.” ~Clifford Stoll~ “The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.” ~Peter Singer~ “The Internet knows no national borders.” ~Alan Dershowitz~

UNEMPLOYMENT

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“We Conservatives hate unemployment.” ~Margaret Thatcher~ “When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.” ~Calvin Coolidge~ “When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.” ~Calvin Coolidge~ “Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.” ~Jonathan Davis~ “Any degree of unemployment worries me.” ~Gerhard Schroder~ “What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.” ~Abdullah II of Jordan~ “For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.” ~Kim Campbell~

AN IDEAL TEACHER

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those arts of living well.” 30

~Aristotle~ “They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.” ~Nicholas Sparks~ “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” ~ Alexander the Great~ “A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” ~Henry Adams~ “The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.” ~Maria Montessori~ “A teacher is the one who, in his youth, admired teachers.” ~H.L.Mencken~ “A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power.” ~Thomas Szasz~ “A teacher affects eternity.” ~Henry Adams~ “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” ~Albert Einstein~

“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” 30

~Brad Henry~ “The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.” ~Elbert Hubbard~

MY FAVOURITE POET “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.” ~Oscar Wilde~ “Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” ~Khalil Gibran~ “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” ~Robert Frost~ “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” ~Robert Frost~

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” ~Robert Frost~ “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” ~Edgar Allan Poe~

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~Plato~ “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” ~T. S. Eliot~ “To have great poets, there must be great audiences.” ~Walt Whitman~ “Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.” ~William Hazlitt~ “Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.” ~Samuel Johnson~ “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.” ~Novalis~ “Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.” ~Muriel Rukeyser~ “Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” ~Thomas Gray~ “Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” ~Rita Dove~ “Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.” ~Robert Frost~

IMPORTANCE OF GAMES

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” 30

~Michael Jordan~ “Games lubricate the body and the mind.” ~Benjamin Franklin~ “Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.” ~Alan Thicke~ “No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.” ~W. H. Auden~ “You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.” ~Nikki Giovanni~ “Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.” ~David Duchovny~

WONDERS OF SCIENCE “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” ~Albert Einstein~

“Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.” 30

~Martin Luther King, Jr.~ “Science does not know its debt to imagination.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” ~Carl Sagan~ “There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.” ~Isaac Asimov~ “Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.” ~Hippocrates~ “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” ~Adam Smith~

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” ~John Dewey~ “There are no shortcuts in evolution.” ~Louis D. Brandeis~ “The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”

~Edward Teller~

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“Science is the systematic classification of experience.” ~George Henry Lewes~ “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.” ~Albert Einstein~

MY BEST FRIEND “A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” ~William Penn~ “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” ~Muhammad Ali~

“Friends are like stars, you do not see them every time but you know that they are there.” ~Anonymous~ “True friends are like diamonds; precious and rare. False friends are like leaves; found everywhere.” ~Anonymous~ “My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

~Aristotle~

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“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ~Henry Ford~ “Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.” ~Bill Watterson~

A VISIT TO A MUSEUM “Give me a museum and I'll fill it.” ~Pablo Picasso~ “I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.” ~Steven Wright~

“The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.” ~David Rockefeller~ “It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.” ~Brad Pitt~ “Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.” ~Robert Smithson~ “Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.” ~Robert Smithson~

“A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.” 30

~Renzo Piano~

A HOCKEY MATCH “A good hockey player plays where the puck is.” ~Wayne Gretzky~ “A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” ~Wayne Gretzky~ “Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.” ~Wayne Gretzky~ “Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.” ~Wayne Gretzky~ “Every day is a great day for hockey.” ~Mario Lemeiux~ “Hockey is the original extreme sport.” ~Tom Ward~ “Hockey's my favorite sport.” ~Denis Leary~ “Hockey is a tough game.” ~Bobby Orr~ “Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.”

~Mario Lemeiux~

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AN IDEAL CITIZEN “Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.” ~Thomas Jefferson~ “The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.” ~Theodore Roosevelt~ “If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.” ~Francis Bacon~ “I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.” ~Eugene V. Debs~ “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” ~Diogenes~ “The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.” ~Benito Mussolini~ “Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.” ~Martha Gellhorn~ “I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.” ~Marco Rubio~

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