Never listen with a predetermined notion(words of Wisdom)A teacher teaching Math's to seven-year-old Kazim asked him, "If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?" Within a few seconds Kazim replied confidently, "Four!"The dismayed teacher was expecting an effortless correct answer (three). She was disappointed. "Maybe the child did not listen properly," she thought. She repeated, "Kazim, listen carefully. If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?"Kazim had seen the...

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Lessons on life Don't be Judgemental, Dont judge too quicklyA young lady was waiting for her flight in the boarding room of a big airport. As she would need to wait many hours, she decided to buy a book to spend her time. She also bought a packet of cookies.She sat down in an armchair, in the VIP room of the airport, to rest and read in peace. Beside the armchair where the packet of cookies lay, a man sat down in the next seat, opened his magazine and started reading.When she took out the first cookie, the man took one also. She felt irritated...

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Don't Judge a Book by its Cover! Dont judge too quicklyA lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston and walk timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer office.The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard University and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge University."We want to see the president," the man said softly."He'll be busy all day," the secretary snapped."We'll wait,"...

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Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, "All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing."Thomas Edison replied very confidently, "Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We now that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb."Motivational Quote: "If you learn from your mistakes then you are intelligent. But if you learn from someone's mistakes, then you are a Genius." Learn from...

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Islamic Inspirational and Motivational Stories: Power of Positive ThinkingIn life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us!This can be read as "GOD IS NO WHERE" or as "GOD IS NOW HERE" everything depends on how you see it. So think positive always. Thinking positive...

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Setting India on FireWRITTEN BY FARZANA SHAH"It is a matter of deep humiliation to confess...that we are a house divided against itself that we Hindus and Mussulmans are flying at one another. It is a matter of still deeper humiliation that we Hindus regard several million of our own kith and kin as too degraded even for our touch."Prologue Indian history of the past sixty years has been marred by religious, political and communal violences. An interesting...

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My dearest Pakistan,

By: Noushah ArshadMy dearest Pakistan,I am one of your children who have been enjoying your lovely seasons and eye catching scenes through out my life. You are the one who brought me up and taught me to see the world and understand it. I learned to crawl on your sweet scented soil when I was of few months. When I saw the first rainfall, it was your independence day. Your blue skies and chirping birds have always been a source of inspiration me. When I first saw your mountains, it was the beautiful view of Margalla hills. I was of 9 years old then....

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Qadam Qadam Pay Juda Ho Gaya Koi Na Koi

 Qadam Qadam Pay Juda Ho Gaya Koi Na Koi One of the hardest times of life is to lose a loved one … have you ever felt the pain of such loss? In the course of life we lose our friends, parents and siblings … its part of life and something that is meant to happen … but what if some one makes it happen for u? If you are forced to lose someone so close to you? Will you accept it as the will of God or will you try to stop that someone who is forcing you to lose your relations? Have you ever thought about it? What happens when you lose some...

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