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Life

"Life is something that everyone should try at least once."

- Henry J. Tillman

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Jay Glenn Miner

Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 - June 20, 1994) was a famous integrated circuit designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips. He received a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1959.More Details

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Open Innovation by Henry Chesbrough

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Money

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.'"

- John F. Kennedy

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Nusli Wadia

Nusli Wadia is an Indian Parsi entrepreneur, and an important figure in the Indian textile industry and real-estate business.

Nusli Wadia is the son of Neville and Dina Wadia, and the grandson of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan.
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Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond

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Time

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.'"

- John F. Kennedy

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963
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Wisdom of the Ages: 60 Days to Enlightenment

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Truth

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"

- Kahlil Gibran

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Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White (May 28, 1912, Knightsbridge, London – September 30, 1990) was an Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until death, he published twelve novels, two short story collections, eight plays, and non-fiction. His fiction freely employs shifting narrative vantages and the stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Kiss Theory Good Bye: Five Proven Ways to Get Extraordinary Results in Any Company

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Success

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (Hindi: जवाहरलाल नेहरू) (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of Independent India. He was also a key figure in International politics in the post-war period, and was one of the founding figures of the non-alignment. Popularly referred to as Panditji (Scholar), Nehru was also a writer, scholar and amateur historian, and the patriarch of the Rajeev-Nehru-Gandhi Family, one of the most influential forces in Indian politics.

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The Case of the Bonsai Manager

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Love

"To love and be loved is to feel the Sun from both sides."

- David Viscott

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Global warming

India’s concerns relating to grains, in general, and wheat, in particular, are becoming more serious. While demand continues to expand rapidly, output has turned unsteady in the last six or seven years, as much because of water stress and declining soil health as the effects of global warming.

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Man's Search For Meaning

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Fact

"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."

- Arab Proverb

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William Whewell

William Whewell (May 24, 1794 – March 6, 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science.Whewell was born in Lancaster, England. His father, a carpenter, wished him to follow his trade, but his success in mathematics at Lancaster and Heversham grammar schools won him an exhibition at Trinity College, Cambridge (1812). He was Second Wrangler in 1816, President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1817, became fellow and tutor of his college, and, in 1841, succeeded Dr Christopher Wordsworth as master.

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Developing Management Skills

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Love

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

- William Shakespeare

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Cash Equity

Cash equity is all about understanding the current status of an investment portfolio. Essentially, the cash equity is the net worth of all cash that could be derived from the investments and securities that are included in the portfolio. Monitoring the cash equity is a great way to make sure that the current mix of investments is working, as well as a good strategy in determining what to keep and what to sell.

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Care

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

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Ram Mohan Roy

Ram Mohan Roy, also written as Rammohun Roy, or Raja Ram Mohun Roy (Bangla: রাজা রামমোহন রায়, Raja Rammohon Rae), (May 22, 1772 – September 27, 1833) was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the first Indian socio-religious reform movements. His remarkable influence was apparent in the fields of politics, public administration and education as well as religion. He is most known for his efforts to abolish the practice of sati, a Hindu funeral custom in which the widow sacrifices herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. It was he who first introduced the word "Hinduism" (or "Hindooism") into the English language in 1816.

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The Gift of Fear

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Life

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

- Victor Hugo

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Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Ratna Gandhi राजीव गाधीं, born in Mumbai, (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 7th Prime Minister of India (and the 2nd from the Gandhi family) from his mother's death on 31 October, 1984 until his resignation on December 2, 1989 following a general election defeat. Becoming the Prime Minister of India at the age of 40, he is the youngest person to date to hold that office.

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The Gift of Fear

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Truth

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

- Lenin

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Chandrashekarendra Saraswati

H.H. Jagadguru Shankaracharya Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati Paramacharya Swamigal (1894–1994) or the Sage of Kanchi is considered to be one of the greatest saints of India (or Bharatavarsha). He is usually referred to as Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati.

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Capital Ideas Evolving

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Dream

"I dream, therefore I become."

- Cheryl Renée Grossman

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Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond (19 May 1934 -) is an Indian author of British descent. He was born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) and has lived in Landour since the 1960s, having previously also lived, as a child and young man, in Shimla, Jamnagar, Mussoorie, Dehradun, and London. Most of his writings show a strong influence from the social life in the hill stations at foothills of the Himalayas, where he spent his childhood. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature.

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Society

"Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow."

- Arthur Stringer

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Alan Kay

Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until mid 2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Leadership and Self Deception

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Think

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."

- Horace Walpole

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Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

Fourier, the son of a tailor from Auxerre in France, was educated at the local military school and later at the Ecole Normale in Paris. He held posts at both the Ecole Normale and the Ecole Polytechnique where he was a very effective and influential teacher. In 1798 he accompanied Napoleon on the invasion of Egypt and later contributed to and oversaw the publication of the Description de l'Egypte (1808–25), a massive compilation of the cultural and scientific materials brought back from the expedition.

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Leadership and Self Deception

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Fool

"He who hesitates is a damned fool."

- Mae West

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Debendranath Tagore

Debendranath Tagore (Bangla: দেবেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর Debendronath Ţhakur) (May 15, 1817 - January 19, 1905) was an Indian Bengali philosopher from current-day West Bengal, in India.

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Life

"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."

- John Atkinson


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Saturn INT-21

The Saturn INT-21 was an American orbital launch vehicle of the 1970s. It was derived from the Saturn V rocket, used for the Apollo program, and is commonly mistaken for the Saturn V. It was only launched once, from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, carrying the Skylab space station into orbit, at 17:50 GMT, on May 14, 1973. It was intended to be used for other flights in the Apollo Applications Program, and would have also been used to launch other American space stations, including Skylab B, the S-IVB Dry Workshop, and the S-II Wet Workshop.

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The Culture Code

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Try

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

- Beverly Sills

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R. K. Narayan

R. K. Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13 2001), born Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar Narayanaswami,[1] is among the best known and most widely read Indian novelists writing in English.

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The Culture Code

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Hatred

"Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth."

- Buddha

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Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneer of modern nursing, a writer and a noted statistician.

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The Truth About Negotiations

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Life

"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it."

- Jack Handey

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Capitalism

Capitalism is a socio-economic system in which private ownership means profit to the owner. The owner controls the means of production, so the profit belongs to the private business owner. In capitalism, the free market determines the production, distribution and price of goods and services.

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Politeness

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

- Josh Billings

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Swami Chinmayananda

Swami Chinmayananda (May 8, 1916 - Aug 3, 1993) was born Balakrishna Menon (Balan) in Ernakulam, Kerala in a devout Hindu noble family called "Poothampalli". Graduating from Lucknow University, he entered the field of journalism where he felt he could influence political, economic and social reform in India. But his life was changed when he met Swami Sivananda at Rishikesh and became interested in the Hindu spiritual path.

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Work

"People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it."

- Howard Newton

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Wisdom of the Ages

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Work

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach

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Motilal Nehru

Motilal Nehru (May 6, 1861 – February 6, 1931) was an early Indian independence activist and leader of the Indian National Congress. He was the founder patriarch of India's most powerful political family.

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Wisdom of the Ages

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Learning

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

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Zail Singh

Giani Zail Singh (Punjabi: ਜ਼ੈਲ ਸਿੰਘ, May 5 1916 - December 25 1994) was an Indian politician and member of the Congress Party. He served as the seventh President of India between 1982 and 1987.

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Peace Is the Way

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Experience

"Good decision comes from experience but, experience comes from bad decision."

- Bill Gates

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Zakir Hussain

Zakir Hussain (Urdu: زاکِر حسین), was the third President of India from May 13 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969.

Hussain was born in Hyderabad (India). His Pakhtun father had migrated to Hyderabad from Qaimganj in Uttar Pradesh. He was educated at Islamia High School, Etawah, and at the Anglo-Muhammadan Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim University where he was a prominent student leader ).

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Experience

"Good decision comes from experience but, experience comes from bad decision."

- Bill Gates

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Zakir Hussain

Zakir Hussain (Urdu: زاکِر حسین), was the third President of India from May 13 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969.

Hussain was born in Hyderabad (India). His Pakhtun father had migrated to Hyderabad from Qaimganj in Uttar Pradesh. He was educated at Islamia High School, Etawah, and at the Anglo-Muhammadan Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim University where he was a prominent student leader ).

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Life

"Man always gets less than he demands from life."

- Jack London

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Brian Lara

Brian Charles Lara (born May 2, 1969) (nicknamed, "The Prince of Port-of-Spain" or simply "The Prince") was a peerless record-breaking cricketer, and one of all-time greats. He has topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds two of the most prestigious world records for batting in Tests: highest individual innings and the all-time leading run scorer.He also holds the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with a total of 501* for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994.

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