How you played the game

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,

He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the game!” 

– Grantland Rice. 

Pessimism of the Intellect and Optimism of the Will

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
Antonio Gramsci

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Death

Death is not an event in life:We do not live to experience death.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Leon C. Megginson - Survival

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.
Leon C. Megginson

Albert Einstein - Science / Religion

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium [1941]

Bernard Meltzer - How to disagree

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
- Bernard Meltzer

Five tips from Warren Buffet

  1. On Earning:
    “Never depend on a single income. Make Investments to create a second source.”
  2. On Spending:
    “If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.”
  3. On Savings:
    “Do not save what is left after spending, spend what is left after saving.”
  4. On Taking Risks:
    ”Never test the depths of the river with both of your feet.”
  5. On Expectations:
    Honesty is a very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people.

Warren Buffet

Touching poetry by unknown writer.

ज़िंदा हूँ मगर ज़िन्दगी से दूर हूँ मैं
आज क्यूँ इस क़दर मजबूर हूँ मैं

बिना जुर्म के ही सज़ा मिलती है मुझे
किस से कहूँ की आख़िर बे-क़सूर हूँ मैं

मेरी ख़ामोशिओं का सबब हैं ये ग़म मेरे
फ़िर क्यूँ दुनिया समझती है की मग़रूर हूँ मैं

आज फ़िर शिद्दत-ए-ग़म ने रुला दिया मुझे
आज लगता है के ज़ख्मो से चूर हूँ मैं

- Unknown

Oscar Ameringer - Politics

Politics is the art by which politicians get money from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of protecting each from the other.
- Oscar Ameringer