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Common Sense

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

- E.C Mckenzie

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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Vallabhbhai Patel was born on October 31, 1875, in a farmer's family in Nadiad, Gujarat. His father, Zaverbhai, had served in the army of Jhansi ki Rani, and his mother, Ladbai, was a deeply religious woman.
Vallabhbhai's initial schooling was in Gujarati.

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Peace

"Peace is not made in documents,but in the hearts of men."

- E.C Mckenzie

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Homi J Baba

Swami Dayananda Saraswati(1824 - 1883) is an important Hindu religious scholar born in Gujarat, India. As a child, Dayanand sat with his father in a temple for overnight worship. One night, he saw mice eating the offerings kept for the God. He was utterly surprised and wondered how a God, who cannot even defend his own "prasad", would defend the humanity.

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Discipline

"Discipline yourself so others won't have to."

- E.C Mckenzie

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What is Team Building?

Team building is a process that develops cooperation and teamwork within a work unit. To constitute an effective team, its members must share a common goal, have respect for each other, and be motivated to use the strengths of each member to achieve their objectives. Current corporate philosophy stresses that each member of a team plays an integral part in the success of the company.

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Human Nature

"Men and nations do behave wisely, once all other alternatives have been exhausted."

- E.C Mckenzie

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Harvard University
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636,[1] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

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Inventions

"Inventions are coming so fast that the ladder of success may soon be replaced by an escalator"

- E.C Mckenzie

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What is Nanotechnology?
A basic definition: Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. This covers both current work and concepts that are more advanced. In its original sense, 'nanotechnology' refers to the projected ability to construct items from the bottom up, using techniques and tools being developed today to make complete, high performance products.
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Egotists

"Egotism is partly enthusiasm - but mostly ignorance.".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Trotsky) in 1897
Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Leon Trotsky) was born on October 26, 1879, son of a hard-working, thrifty, and well-to-do jewish farmer, in the southern part of Ukraine. The family valued education highly, and when Lev was about nine years old they let him move to the city of Odessa, to stay with his 'uncle' and to go to school. This is where Lev developed his nice manners and intellectual personality.Lev was an exeptionally bright and capable student, and in 1896 he moved to Nicolayev to complete his secondary education and to study matematics. This is where Lev turned revolutionary. In 1897 he was instrumental in founding the South Russia Workers Union and in 1898 the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP).
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ERP Genie - Have One of Your Own: A Corporate Novella Demystifying the Complex IT Management Concept (Taschenbuch)
von A.T. Raman, Peeyushi Diwan

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Charity

"Charity is the sterilized milk of human kindness.".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia
Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia was one of those great geologists of the Geological Survey of India, whose pioneering work laid the foundation of geological investigations in India. What is important to note is that most of his observations and interpretations in those early days of Indian geology still hold good. Wadia’s career was a single-minded pursuit of his scientific interests and indefatigable effort. He climbed peak after peak in the Himalayas to understand their geology and their structure. Wadia explained the abnormal sequence of rock formations of varied ages in the North-Western Himalayas. He also offered an explanation for the formation of the unique knee-bend of the mountain chains around the knot called Nanga Parbat. For the first time he gave a detailed geological account of the districts of Chilas, Astor-Deosai and Hazara. Wadia’s devotion to the study of the Himalayas was unlimited. Wadia was a great visionary. He was responsible for the establishment of the Institute of Himalayan Geology in Dehradun and became its founder director (1968-69). The Institute was later renamed as the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in Wadia’s memory. He was intimately associated with the establishment and functioning of the National Geophysical Research Institute at Hyderabad and the National Institute of Oceanography in Panaji, Goa. Wadia was the founder director of the Indian Bureau of Mines (1947) and the Atomic Minerals Division (1949-69). Wadia was an ardent advocate of a national policy for the search, utilization and conservation of mineral resources including gas, oil and water. He was an avid reader and wrote the first textbook on Indian geology that enthused generations of geologists. Wadia was extremely energetic and hardworking and lived a simple life.

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Mediocre But Arrogant a novel about love and life in a Business School

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Mistakes

"Do it tomorrow - you've made enough mistakes today.".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Albert Sydney Hornby
Albert Sydney Hornby (known affectionately to his friends as 'Ash') was born in Chester in the north of England in 1898. He was educated at University College London, where he took a degree in English Language and Literature in 1922.
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Strategic Navigation: A Systems Approach to Business Strategy by H. William Dettmer

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learning

"Being ignorant is not so shameful as being unwilling to learn".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931

Thomas Alva Edison is one of the greatest inventors in history and was responsible for more inventions than any other inventor. He created the first research laboratory, which he called The Invention Factory, probably one of his greatest achievements. Altogether he took out patents on 1093 inventions. Some of his inventions developed and improved other people's
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Cracking the GMAT 2007 Edition Written by Princeton Review

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Thinking

"With Computers doing our thinking,all we need now is a worrying machine".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Anil Kumble

An unorthodox, right arm leg spin bowler, this tall, bespectacled (now contact lens-ed), captain of Karnataka, who started life as a medium-pacer is India`s most effective strike bowler in both Tests and ODIs. The onl bowler other than Jim Laker to take 10 wickets in an innings, a feat not easy to achieve. He made his debut in England in 1990, alongside Narendra Hirwani, raising hopes of a resurgence in the art of leg-spin. But it was not until his recall against South Africa sixteen months later that he proved his abilities on the International stage. Since then he went from strength to strength. It is his well concealed googly and flipper, along with his genuine medium-pace faster balls that are his strike weapons rather than the leg-break which he turns little

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Best Practices in Personal Marketing for Professionals by Allan Boress

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Confidence

"Faith gives us the courage to face the present with confidence, and the future with expectancy".

- E.C Mckenzie

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World Food Day

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945. The World Food Day theme for 2006 is "Investing in agriculture for food security".

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Money

"Money is an ideal gift - everything is too expensive".

- E.C Mckenzie

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What is Trade Secert?

A trade secret is a piece of information used in business that is an ingredient of a product. This does not necessarily mean that it is a food or drink secret, although it is well known that many food and drink manufacturers claim to have a secret ingredient in their products. Coca Cola, for example, claims to have a secret ingredient, and that is their trade secret.

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Bores

"A bore keeps you from feeling lonely and makes you wish you were".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Sister Nivedita

Dr. Mohammad Yunus was born to a well-to-do family in Chittagong, a business center in Bangladesh, in 1940. His father was a successful goldsmith who always encouraged his sons to seek higher education.
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Excuses

"You can catch some men without money, without tobacco,but never without an excuse.".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Sister Nivedita

Young Margaret Nobel came under the spell of Swami Vivekananda. She came from distant Ireland to India to serve the people of this land. She was given the name of 'Nivedita' as one dedicated to God. She became a teacher to little children and their mothers.
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Experience

"Past Experience should be a guidepost - not a hitching post.".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Kofi Annan: Biographical Note

On January 1, 1997, Kofi Annan became the seventh Secretary General of the United Nations. His election followed a bitterly-contested United States veto of a second term for his predecessor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt. The Security Council recognized it was still Africa's "turn" in the UN's highest office, and eventually selected the U.S.- and French-backed Annan, a soft-spoken Ghanaian then heading the UN's Peacekeeping Department.
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Human Nature

"Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Amitabh Bachchan

Born in October of 1942 when the British rule was beginning to lose power, Amitabh Bachchan is close to completing 60 years of a lifetime. Not interested in films at first, he joined the industry in 1969 with Saat Hindustani. He also became Bollywood's first action man with Zanjeer in 1973. Then, he was known as "the angry young man" after that movie. This movie gave him acclaim and made him a superstar.
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The Biggest Game of All : The Inside Strategies, Tactics, and Temperaments That Make Great Dealmakers Great By Leo Hindery

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Mind

"A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.".

- E.C Mckenzie

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R.K.Narayan

R.K. Narayan was essentially a storyteller, whose sensitive, well-drawn portrayals of twentieth-century Indian life were set mostly in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. Most of Narayan's work, starting with his first novel Swami and Friends (1935), captures many Indian traits while having a unique identity of its own. He was sometimes compared to the United States writer William Faulkner, whose novels were also grounded in a compassionate humanism and celebrated the humour and energy of ordinary life."

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Appreciation

"Appreciation is what some people lack when you do them a favor".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Amjad Ali Khan

Khan was born in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh in 1945, is the sixth-generation sarod player in his family and his ancestors have developed and shaped the instrument over several hundred years. “You could say it's my family instrument”, says Khan, “Whoever is playing the sarod today learned directly or indirectly from my forefathers."

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Happiness

"Happiness can never be found, because it was never lost".

- E.C Mckenzie

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What is Six Sigma?

Six sigma is a set of methodologies used by businesses to achieve extremely low failure rates in any process. The term six sigma derives from the mathematical use of sigma in statistics as a standard deviation. Six sigma is therefore six standard deviations.

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Human Nature

"There are no great men except those who have rendered service to mankind".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Missionaries of Charity

Missionaries of Charity is a Catholic religious order established in 1950 by Nobel Peace Prize (1979) laureate Mother Teresa to tend to "the poorest of the poor."


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Bosses

"Be loyal to your boss because the next one might be worse".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Meghnad N Saha

Meghnad N. Saha(October 6, 1893 – February 16, 1956) was a Bengali Indian astrophysicist. He was born on the 6 October 1893 in a village named Shaoratoli near Dhaka in current day Bangladesh.

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Cooperation

"Coopetation is doing what i tell you to do, and doing it quickly".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Dalai Lama

His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people. He was born in a small village called Takster in northeastern Tibet. Born to a peasant family, His Holiness was recognized at the age of two, in accordance with Tibetan tradition, as the reincarnation of his predecessor the 13th Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lamas are the manifestations of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, who chose to reincarnate to serve the people. Dalai Lama means Ocean of Wisdom. Tibetans normally refer to His Holiness as Yeshin Norbu, the Wish-fulfilling Gem, or simply, Kundun, meaning The Presence.

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Honesty

"Honesty gives a person strength but not always popularity".

- E.C Mckenzie

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Sir Patrick Manson

In the obscurity of Amoy, South China, a lone Scotsman working with the most humble medical resources uncovered the remarkable mystery of filariasis. He not only enriched the world of medicine with numerous contributions on several tropical diseases, but also initiated a new era of thinking that winged arthropods may be associated with the spread of disease in man.

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