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A Thought for Today-279:

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertaking - Samuel Johnson

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A Thought for Today-278:

This world is but a thoroughfare... And we (are) but pilgrims passing to and fro - Chaucer

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A Thought for Today-277:

If you seek a tranquil mind, observe these with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, and how, when and where - Anonymous

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Self-Improvement-60: "The Law of Success" by Napoleon Hill

Grateful thanks to Loomis1324 and YouTube.

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A Thought for Today-276:

Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise - Alexander Pope

A Thought for Today-275:

As long as there is a body, there must be pleasure and pain - Swami Vivekananda

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A Thought for Today-274:

Revenge is the poor delight of little minds - Juvenal

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Facts and Figures-61: "Antarctica losing 190,000,000,000 tons of ice per year!"

A news item in Harper's Weekly (Harper's Weekly Review, November 24, 2009) says that Antartica was now losing, hold your breath, 190,000,000,000 tons of ice per year! I am curious how scientists arrive at these mind-boggling figures.

Grateful thanks to Paul Ford and Harper's Weekly.

Eyecatchers-143: "Global Warming Science is a Fraud?"

A collection of emails from leading climatologists was stolen by hackers and released online; climate-change skeptics said the emails demonstrated that global-warming science is a fraud, while the scientists said that that's just what science looks like.

Courtesy: Weekly Review by Paul Ford, HARPER'S WEEKLY, November 24, 2009.

Grateful thanks to Paul Ford and Harper's Weekly.

A Thought for Today-273:

Words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within - Tennyson

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Facts and Figures-61:

From an ad of CMAI in Dinamalar, Tamil daily, I find that India has crossed the landmark of 500 million telephones.

Sam Pitroda and Rajiv Gandhi, the architects of Indian Communication revolution come to mind. They deserve our gratitude.

Let us look for many more such achievements.