Whether we like someone is influenced by the events with which an individualis associated. Bad news isn’t welcome. We tend to dislike people who tell us whatwe don’t want to hear even when they didn’t cause the bad news i.e., kill themessenger. This gives people an incentive to avoid giving bad news. To protectthemselves, they […]
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‘Nasrudin’ was taking an evening stroll when he stumbled over a man lying on the grass, drunk. Rolling him over, he recognized the drunkard to be none other than the judge — a man famous for passing stiff sentences for moral offences. Seeing that the judge was unconscious, ‘Nasrudin‘ removed his ornate slippers and coat
The rose is gone from the garden, what can I do with the thorns and leaves? The Shah is not in the city, What shall I do with his court? The attractions are the cage: beauty and goodness the parrot. What the parrot has flown, What can I do with the cage? [Hakim Jami, Baharistan]
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There is, among the records of Newton, a sentence in the spirit of ‘Shakspeare’ : —”I don’t know what I may seem to the world ; but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a
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George the Third was one day standing between Lord Eldon and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Sutton. After a moment’s pause in the conversation, the King said gravely, ” I am now in a position which probably no European king ever occupied before.” Lord Eldon begged His Majesty to explain himself. ” I am standing,”
Once a Tortoise saw an Eagle in flight and became jealous. He also decided to fly like Eagle. Therefore, he asked hime if he would teach her how to fly in the sky like any Eagle. The Eagle told her that it was impossible for any Tortoise to fly like Eagle in the sky but
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Once upon a time there was great scarcity of food in the land. Father ‘Anansi’ and his son, ‘Kweku Tsin’, being very hungry, set out one morning to hunt in the forest. In a short time ‘Kweku Tsin’ was fortunate enough to kill a fine deer —which he carried to his father at their resting-place. ‘Anansi’ was very
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‘Kwofi’ was the eldest son of a farmer who had two wives. ‘Kwofi’s mother had no other children. When the boy was three years old his mother died. ‘Kwofi’ was given to his stepmother to mind. After this she had many children. ‘Kwofi’, of course, was the eldest of all.When he was about ten years old his
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