A honeycomb of gold mines in Pandalur Devala forest, Nilgiris.vignesh

A honeycomb of gold mines in Pandalur Devala forest, Nilgiris.

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A honeycomb of gold mines in Pandalur Devala forest, Nilgiris.

“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy” ~ J. Paul Getty

“Remember, if you never do anything differently, you’ll reduce your chances of enjoying lucky accidents” ~ Rory Sutherland

Tiruppur | A Gujarati woman&#39;s wish in the 1940&#39;s produced the perfect government school in Tamilnadu

Hello managers, hope you all had a super-fun season. Spilling some of the lessons I learnt throughout this edition of FPL, reckon these 10 points (basic — so veterans ignore) might add some value to our discussion here. Happy off-season people!

“Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

“The world as a whole has never been richer, and it has never been more heavily in debt, living off borrowed money. The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity” ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“There is no love that&#39;s so right as admiration-based love, and that love should include the instructive dead” ~ Charlie Munger

“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don&#39;t think I could eat eight” ~ Yogi Berra

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm” ~ Colette

“What you accomplish will never be as important as who you become” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance” ~ Will Durant

“To learn, to come to understand things, can be the greatest of human pleasures — and the only one that will never be exhausted” ~ Friedrich Hayek

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government...

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven&#39;t loved enough” ~ Elif Shafak

“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost” ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else&#39;s opinion” ~ Thomas Sowell

“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big” ~ Umberto Eco

“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less” ~ Oscar Wilde

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done” ~ Vincent van Gogh

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind” ~ Rudyard Kipling

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently” ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That&#39;s real glory. Thats the essence of it” ~ Vince Lombardi

Tiruppur | A Gujarati woman's wish in the 1940's produced the perfect government school in Tamilnadu

“There is no love that's so right as admiration-based love, and that love should include the instructive dead” ~ Charlie Munger

“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don't think I could eat eight” ~ Yogi Berra

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough” ~ Elif Shafak

“It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion” ~ Thomas Sowell

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it” ~ Vince Lombardi