Category: Nice Reads
Contains interesting, touching and thought provoking articles
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1ly 4 crazy sms lovers
SMS Short Cuts: 1dRfl – wonderful 2 – to/too/two 2dA – today 2moro – tomorrow 2nite – tonite 3dom – freedom 4 – for 4get – forget 4N – foreign ADN – any day now AFAIK – as far as I know AFAIR – as far as I recall ASAP – as soon as possible…
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A wonderful article on accepting things
Dr. Alan Zimmerman’s Comments: Sooner or later, everyone you know will disappoint you in some way. They’ll say something or fail to say something that will hurt you. And they’ll do something or fail to do something that will anger you. It’s inevitable. Unfortunately, you make things worse when you stew over someone’s words and…
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16 Things Learnt By Dave Barry
16 THINGS THAT TOOK ME OVER 50 YEARS TO LEARN by Dave Barry 1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. 2. 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…
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Some less known facts
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.…
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Good Philosophical Note
A good philosophical note. ========================== A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this. He…
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2% or 98%
This is really interesting and amusing. Please try it. 2% or 98% This is strange…can you figure it out? Are you the 2% or 98% of the population? Follow the instructions! NO PEEKING AHEAD! * Do the following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow. * There’s no trick or surprise. * Just follow these instructions,…
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Triple Filter
In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to be held in high esteem because of his knowledge. 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…
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Donate Blood
The below article was written by my manager for an internal newsletter. Hope you like this article.. Healing Touch –Praveen Gupta “First break all the rules”, “Challenge the stereotypes”, “Live for the moment”, “Resolutions are for lesser mortals”, “What the hell” are some of the thoughts that reverberate my mind towards the end of every…
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Triangle of Life
In the wake of the Tsunami and the multiple earthquakes following it, the following article may be quite helpful to read … and pass on. EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP’S ARTICLE ON THE “TRIANGLE OF LIFE”, Edited by Larry Linn for MAA Safety Committee brief on 4/13/04. My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue…
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Motivation
The history of the baby frog……. Once upon a time there was a bunch of baby frogs…. … participating in a competition. The target was to get to the top of a high tower. A crowd of people had gathered to observe the race and encourage the participants….. The start shot rang out……. Quite honestly:…