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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

--Buddha

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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

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We do not remember days; we remember moments.
~Cesare Pavese

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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.
--Mary Anne Radmacher

Someone kill them instead....

Taleban 'will kill school girls' from BBC

Taleban militants in the Swat valley in north-west Pakistan have threatened to kill girls who attend school.

A simple and logical read :)

The lack of female Einsteins is all down to numbers from New Scientist

Why are there so few female Einsteins? Many people share a belief that while women can do science, there are far fewer women than men at the very top of the science hierarchy because women just aren't as innately good at science as men. Others feel this view is wrong but cannot easily put their finger on why.

They should be able to now. There are few women at the top of science because there are so few women in science. It's simple statistics.

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you can no longer cite the greater number of men among the most successful people as evidence of innate differences until the effects of participation rates have been allowed for," says Bilalic.

In short, it's hardly surprising that there are so few women Einsteins when there are so few male ones – and so many more men are trying.

Hopping for a better new year!!!

Another year almost gone by... and life seems to have taken a leap. Strange, a year I will never forget yet it is not memorable at all.

Wishing the New Year bring happiness and smiles and success and much more!!!