If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Two men were in a restaurant and ordered fish.
The waiter brought a dish with two fish, one larger than the other.
One of the men said to the other, "Please help yourself."
The other one said "Okay", and helped himself to the larger fish.
After a tense silence, the first one said, "Really, now, if you had offered me the first choice, I would have taken the smaller fish!"
The other one replied, "What are you complaining for; you have it, don't you?"

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production.

We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine:
'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far.

- Robert Francis Kennedy -

The greatest gift is a passion of reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

- Elizabeth Hardwick -

Online History Community

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This is a massive online community for people across the globe to discuss world history. The resource hosts an exhaustive list of detailed articles about past civilisations-both ancient and modern. The site is a virtual bottomless pit of information regarding mankind's chronicles.

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You need to e-mail pictures to your friends, but don't have the software to resize those large photos. Well this site is the solution. Just select the file from your hard drive, choose the new size, hit the resize button and you're done.

1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?

The word "incorrectly. "

2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?

1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.

3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?

None, the boat rises with the tide. Googly ;-)

4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?

White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.

5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three ?

Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if you follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is performed before addition. So... Half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.

6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?

Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the shutters in, which knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him.

7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?

None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence of dirt.

8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same question, but the location is in Canada ?

Both questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again. The question said nothing about that bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball down...

9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.

The time and month/date/year American style calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.

10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?

One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.

11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

The temperature.

Ek baar ek Totaa (Bole to Parrot ) Ud Raha tha full speed par ....
Uske Saamne full speed me ek Ferrari AA rahi thi ...
Dono ki takkar hui ...
Totaa Behosh ...
Raste me Ek Beggar tha
Usne Tote ko uthaya aur Ghar Le gaya ...
Usko Marham lagaya ..
Aur Pinjare me rakh diya ...
Jab Tote ko hosh aaya ...
Usne apne aap ko Pinjare me dekha ............
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Bola .........
"AAILA ... JAIL .... Woh Ferrari ka Driver mar gaya kya ??

Triple Filter Test

In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?" "Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."

"Triple filter?"

"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filter test.

The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?""No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and...""All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter.

The second filter is goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?""No, on the contrary...""So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test though, because there's one filter left.

The last one is filter of usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?""No, not really.""Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

- Swami Vivekananda -

Truth About Sardar Jokes

My friend told me the following incident which I wish to share with you. It had a deep impact on my thinking.

In the diwali vacation, a group of friends had gone to Delhi.

They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing.

The driver was an old Sardar, and boys being boys, they began cracking Sardarji jokes, just to insinuate the old man.

But to their surprise, the fellow remained unperturbed.

At the end of the sight-seeing, they paid up the hire-charges. The Sardar returned the change. Moreover, he gave each one of them one rupee extra and said, (in Hindi,of course),''son, since morning you have been telling Sardarji jokes. I listened to them all and let me tell you, some of them were in a very bad taste. Still, I don't mind coz I know that you are young blood and are yet to see the world. But I have just one request. Here I am giving you one rupee each. Give it to the first Sardar beggar that you come across in this city."

My friend continued," That one rupee coin is still with me. I couldn't find a single Sardar begging on the streets of Delhi."

Friends, we all love sardar jokes. But the fact of matter is that Sikhs are one of the most prosperous and diversified communities in the world. The secret behind their universal success, according to me, is their willingness to do any job with utmost dedication. A Sardar will drive a truck or set up a roadside garage or a dhaba, but he will never beg on the streets.