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| Xpress Poll |
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on purchase of a diesel vehicle can help in reducing vehicular pollution?
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| The Hand |
| November17, 2008 |
| On the eve of Thanks-giving Day, a school teacher asked her
class of nursery school children to draw a picture of something they were
thankful for. She thought of how little these children from the poor
neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for.
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| One set of footprints |
| October 20, 2008 |
| A man died and went to Heaven and met God. God showed him his
past life and his complete journey on Earth. The man observed all the scenes
from his life and reflected on what he had seen.
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| The farmer the noble man |
| September 22, 2008 |
| His name was Fleming, and he was poor Scottish farmer. One
day, while going about trying to eke out a living for his family, he heard a
cry for help coming from a nearby bog. he dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
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| Honesty, the best policy |
| August 25, 2008 |
| A king in ancient times was famous for his wisdom and
righteousness. He ruled justly, and looked after the needs of his subjects.
However, he had one regret; he had no childern, and the ruler and ruled alike
were worried about who would succeed him.
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| The trouble tree |
| July 28, 2008 |
| The carpenter hired by a wealthy farmer to help restore his
old farm house had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tyre had
caused him to miss an hour of work, his electric saw quit, and now his ancient
pick-up truck refused to start.
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| A pound of butter |
| June 30, 2008 |
| Once there was a farmer, who regularly sold a pound of butter
to a baker. One day the baker decided to see if he was actually getting a pound
and he found that he was not.
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| In Search of Holiness |
| June 02, 2008 |
| Word had spread across the countryside about a wise Holy Man
who lived in a small house atop the mountain. A man from the village decided to
undertake the long and difficult journey to visit him.
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| Healing the Wound |
| May 05, 2008 |
| There was a six year old boy who stuttered when he spoke, but
he didn't know it.One day in school, his class teacher brought a tape
recorder.The whole class was excited at the prospect of reading into it. One by
one, they approached the microphone and nervously spoke a few words.When it was
his turn, the boy had some difficulty and his lips tended to stick together.
However, he felt that he had done a satisfactory job and returned confidently
to his seat.
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| A Teacher's Influence |
| April 07, 2008 |
| A woman attended her 20-year school reunion.There she met her
high school art teacher. She told him that she went for college studies only
because she was highly inspired by him, and that she was now an arts professor
at a reputed university.
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| Strength of character |
| March 10, 2008 |
| Once a Chinese minister came to meet Chanakya, one of the
Indian masters of statecraft, at his house in the evening, saying that he had
heard of his greatness even in faraway China, and wanted an audience with him.
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| Is that so |
| February 11, 2008 |
| A beautiful, unmarried girl in the village was pregnant. Her
angry parents demanded to know who the father was. At first hesitant to
confess, the embarrassed girl finally pointed to Hakuin, the Zen master whom
everyone revered for living a pure life. When the outraged parents confronted
Hakuin with their daughter's accusation, he simply replied, "Is that so?"
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| Why Tseng Shen killed the pig |
| January 14, 2008 |
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One day, when Tseng Shen's wife was going to the market, their son cried and
wanted to go with her. "Go back now!" she wheedled him, "When I get home, we'll
kill the pig for you."..
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| Wealth Sucess and Love |
| December 17, 2007 |
| A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long
white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognise them. She said,
"I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have
something to eat." "Is the man of the house home?" they asked. "No", she said.
"He's out." "Then we cannot come in," they replied..
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| Who Packed your Parachute? |
| November 19, 2007 |
| Sometimes in the daily chalenges that I do throws at us, we
miss what is realy important.We may fall to say hello,please,thank you,or
congratulate someone on something wonderful that could have happened to him or
her,give a compliment,orjust do somthing nice for no reason.
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| The power of words |
| October 22, 2007 |
| Thomas carlyle is the author of the classic"A group of frogs
were travelling through the woods. By misfortune, two of them fell into a deep
pit. all the other frogs gathered around the pit.When they saw how deep the pit
was, they called out to the frogs that they were as good as dead..
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| Hanuman Devotion |
| September 24, 2007 |
| While building the bridge across the ocean, Hanuman played an
active role. One day, Lord Rama came up to watch the construction. He noticed
that Hanuman had a queue of monkeys standing in front of him with big boulders
and rocks.......
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