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My perfect holiday is when I can sit back with a book on an easy chair and not answer for my idleness to anyone. I do not mind what book I read really. Books are meant to do something to me and it is all that I expect in a holiday as well.  After having [...]

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Sleep

As a child I thought sleep was glorious.  I still think so. One would think certain habits like hitting the sack at a regular time or waking up by break of dawn would pall with passage of time. No. Man goes to sleep like a beggar with his worn out nerves and thoughts soiled by [...]

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“Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study published Wednesday.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said consumers were paying higher prices for organic food because of its perceived health benefits, creating a global organic market worth an estimated $48 billion in 2007.
A systematic [...]

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“I can think for myself the big issues but you gotta solve small issues for me, like where my next meal is coming from.”
Mahatma Kane Jeeves II

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Religion is for man. Quality of religion is such an abstract quantity that makes no sense unless it is shown in practice.
Religion requires a base from which anyone may show off the merit of belief-systems that he subscribes to. Man is one such. He or she may demonstrate its color and other qualities. It is [...]

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“Life is like a Ponzi scheme…” I will let Bernie Madoff complete the sentence.
Mahatma Kane Jeeves II

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A Quote

Marriages are made in heaven but those who pull the strings behind, over the time, seem to lose track of reality.
benny

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‘Obedience is good for the soul but obedience to your body makes even the hundred names of Allah sound perfect’ -An Uzbeck proverb
As the fellow who told the kazi when he was accused of impiety, ‘ When my bladder is bursting and must leak I tell the mullah,”This isn’t time. Allah can wait. The mullah [...]

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 Astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that all galaxies and distant astronomical objects were moving away from us, as predicted by a universal expansion. Using the redshift of their electromagnetic spectra to determine the distance and speed of remote objects in space, he showed that all objects are moving away from us, and that their speed is [...]

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Nucleus of an atom is made up of protons and neutrons, collectively known as nucleons. These are fermions (spin-half particles) of almost the same mass (in fact it is often useful to think of them as two different states of the same particle, distinguished by different values of quantum number, isospin).
 Nucleons interact with one another [...]

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