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Quite a Character !

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I can remember when I was a child in grade school, my parents would attend the PTA meetings. I stayed at home shaking in my boots, fearful of what my teachers had to say about me. I don't know why. Most of the time when they returned home, my father would say,  "I asked how you were doing in class . She said  'Bob's a charmer.'"  I'd smile and sigh with relief. "You're quite a character, Bob,"  my mother would tell me. So, for most of my life I thought being a character was the most important thing.   Then one day when I had been much too long in adulthood, I heard someone talk about my reputation. It wasn't very flattering. Most likely truthful to some extent, but not something I'd want my parents to hear at PTA. Being a charmer doesn't always work for good. I also discovered that being a character isn't as good as having character. Being a character is like being a clown, an actor of sorts. Having character invol...

हिंदी दिवस की शुभकामनाएं!

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  राष्ट्रभाषा हमारे देश की आत्मा है और इसके मूल निवासियों का चरित्र है। हिंदी दिवस की शुभकामनाएं!

A Special Teacher

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Story – A Special Teacher.   Years ago a John Hopkin's professor gave a group of graduate students this assignment: Go to the slums. Take 200 boys, between the ages of 12 and 16, and investigate their background and environment. Then predict their chances for the future.   The students, after consulting social statistics, talking to the boys, and compiling data, concluded that 90 percent of the boys would spend some time in jail. Twenty-five years later another group of graduate students was given the job of testing the prediction.   They went back to the same area. Some of the boys - by then men - were still there, a few had died, some had moved away, but they got in touch with 180 of the original 200.   They found that only four of the group had ever been sent to jail. Why was it that these men, who had lived in a breeding place of crime, had such a surprisingly good record? The researchers were continually told:  "Well, there was a teacher..." The...

श्री कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी

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आनंदै आनंद बढ्यौ अति। देवनि दिवि दुंदुभी बजाई, सुनि मथुरा प्रगटे जादवपति। बरषत सुमन सुदेस सूर सुर, जय-जयकार करत,मानत रति। आप सभी को श्री कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी के पावन पर्व की हार्दिक बधाई एवं शुभकामनाएं।

Life Lessons

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"5 Things U can't recover in life 1)A stone after it is thrown 2)A word after it is said 3)Time after it is gone 4)Trust after it is lost And last but not the least 5)An occasion after it is missed. Its a true fact."

तिरंगा

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कुछ नशा तिरंगे की आन का है। कुछ नशा मातृभूमि की मान का है। हम लहराएंगे हर जगह ये तिरंगा। नशा ये हिंदोस्तान की शान का है। #HarGharTiranga 

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about

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