FROM DILIP MUKERJEA

"Genius is in-born, may it never be still-born."

"Oysters, irritated by grains of sand, give birth to pearls. Brains, irritated by curiosity, give birth to ideas."

"Brainpower is the bridge to the future; it is what transports you from wishful thinking to willful doing."

"Unless you keep learning & growing, the status quo has no status."
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

QUESTIONS TO PONDER: 3 QUESTIONS that exist at the interplay between Selfishness & Selflessness

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?

And if I am only for myself, then what am I?

And if not now, when?

~ Rabbi Hillel, (flourished 1st century BC – c. first quarter of the 1st century AD) Jewish sage & architect of rabbinic Judaism; remembered as a model scholar & communal leader, whose brilliance, patience, & goodness are to be emulated by all rabbis;