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Tuesday, January 28, 2003Cycle of Karma.
Ronald Opus died from a shotgun wound to the head. He, however, had jumped from the top of a ten-storey building to commit suicide. As hefell past the ninth floor, a shotgun blast through a window killed himinstantly. A safety net had been installed at the eighth floor an Opuswould not have been able to commit suicide. An elderly coupleoccupied the room from whence the shotgun blast emanated. Theywere arguing vigorously, and he was threatening her with a shotgun.When the man pulled the trigger, he missed his wife and the bulletstruck Opus instead. The old couple maintained they thought theshotgun was unloaded. The old man said it was his long-standing habitto threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. Therefore, Opus’skilling appeared to be an accident. Investigation turned up a witnesswho had seen the old couple’s son loading the shotgun. The womanhad cut off her son’s financial support and the son loaded the gunhoping his father would shoot his mother. Further investigationrevealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. Despondent over theloss of financial support, he jumped off the building, only to be killed bya shotgun blast. The son had actually murdered himself, so the casewas closed as suicide.
Test of CivilizationWhere women are honoured, there the gods are delighted, but where thy areinsulted, all sacred rites become futile.Manu Smrithi.In Jivaka’s pleasant woodland walked Subha the Sister. A gallant met her there and barred the way. To him thus spake Subha, ‘What have I done tooffend thee, that thus in my path thou comest?....’ ‘ Young art thou, maiden,and faultless - what seekest thou in the holy life? … come, in the blossomingwoodland seek we our pleasure ….’ ‘What now to thee, in this carrion-filled,grave-filling carcass so fragile seen by thee, seemeth to warrant the doctrinethou speakest?....’ ‘yes has thou like the gazelle’s …. Which feedeth thedepths of my passion. Shrined in thy dazzling, immaculate face as in calyx of the lotus…’ ‘ Thou art blind! Thou chasest a sham. What is this eye but a littleball lodged in the fork of a hollow tree, bubble of film anointed with teare-brine, exuding slime-drops?’ Forthwith the maiden so lovely tore out her eyeand gave it to him: ‘Here! Take thou thine eye!’ Nor sinned she, her heart unobstructed. Straightaway the lust in him ceased and he her pardonimplored. Freed from molesting, the Sister went on her way to the Buddha…Thereafter, her sight was restored to her.- Psalm of Sister Subha.Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization. –Elizabeth C Stanton.Wednesday, January 29, 2003Test of Power 
 
The real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it. –Anne McCormick.What difference does it make to the dead…... whether the mad destruction iswrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?-Mahatma Gandhi All warfare is based on deception. -Sun Tzu, Art of War.War hath no fury like a non-combatant.- C EMontague.No one wins a war.-Brock ChisholmThere never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.Ulysses S Grant.If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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Moshe Dayan.
 
Saturday, 01/02/03Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become amonster.Friedrich Nietzche.War is like fire. You can prevent a fire, or you can try to put it out but you can’t winfire.H H Arnold.To ask the hard question is simple. WH Auden.Webster partially defines faith a s an unquestioning belief in God with complete trust,confidence and reliance. Faith is not just waiting, hoping and wantin things tohappen. Rather it is working hard to make things happen and realizing that there areno failures – just disappointments – when you have done your best. As someone oncesaid: “if you do your best, angels can do no better”. John Wooden (US Basketball coach).Time has no divisions to mark its passage; there is never a thundersotorm toannounce the beginning of a New Year. It is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off  pistol.Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain.Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.Louis Nizer Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They areconflicts between two rights.Georg Hegel.The way gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.Socrates. All glory comes from daring to begin. Eugene Ware.Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you’ve got. Andrew Young. After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how it might have been saved.ItalianProverb. A wealthy, self-made man once confided to me the secret of success. “It is not only being in the rith place at the right time,” he said, “but 
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being in the right frameof mind.”V. Burden.To the victor belong the responsibilities.-
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It costs more to buythe average new car in the United States today than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake his maiden voyage to the New World.David Louis, Fascinating Facts.He who mistrusts most should be trusted least. Theognis. Just when you think you’ve graduated from the college of experience, someonethinks up a new course.M.H.W.If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.A.B.You can buy flattery, but envy must be earned. Quoted in PhilipsCalender.Marriage is like ordering dinner in a restaurant. You always think you made the right choice until you see what the other fellow has.Harvest FarmMagazine, Taiwan.Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.Hermann Hesse.Great joys, like griefs, are silent. Shackerly Marmion.My first thought about art, as a child, was that the artist brings something into theworld that didn’t exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its centralmagic, its core of joy. John Updike.
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