MBA Admission Test January 2008 Question Paper (Fully Solved), GPO, University of Delhi, General Awareness

1. The term 'Aparanta' or 'Pratichya' nin ancient literature refers to ...
1) North India, 2) Mid-Indo-Gangetic Plain, 3) North-Western India, 4) Western India
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2. Who among the following was awarded the 'Nobel Prize'?...
1) Rutherford, 2) Chadwich, 3) Bohr, 4) Goldstein..
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3. The International Date Line is located in the...
1) Pacific Ocean, 2) Arcitic Ocean, 3) Indian Ocean, 4) Atlantic Ocean
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4. 'Interest Rate Policy' is a component of...
1) Fiscal Policy, 2) Monetary Policy, 3) Trade Policy, 4) Direct Control
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5. Which instrument is employed for conducting astronomical photography?
1) Spectrograph, 2) Astrograph, 3) Photometer, 4) Quadrant...
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6. India's Gauri Shankar won Gold at the 'Biel Internationa Youth Chess Championship', in...
1) Germany, 2) France, 3) Switzerland 4) Russia

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7. The centre has directed the public sector banks to increase advances to minority communities including Muslims, Christians and Sikhs, to ... of their total priority sector lending over the next three years....

1) 5 percent, 2) 10 percent, 3) 15 percent, 4) 20 percent...

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8. Name the country's third largest private sector lender which has been officially changed to the Axis Bank Ltd...

1) Lord Krishna Bank, 2) HDFC Bank, 3) Centurian Bank, 4) U.T.I. Bank...

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9. Which of the following awards has been won by the 'Incredible Indian Campaign' of the Tourism Ministry?...

1) PATA Award, 2) Golden Peacock Award, 3) Jim Corbett Award, 4) Hotel Association of Asia-Pacific Award...

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10. The first-regular adjudicatory mobile court in the country has ben inaugurated at Punbanna village in...

1) Bihar, 2) Andhra Pradesh, 3) Haryana, 4) Punjab...

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11) 17.38 metres is the height of the statue of Bahubali at Sravanabelagola in...., which is the world's biggest single-stone statue...

1) Andhra Pradesh, 2) Kerala, 3) Tamil Nadu, 4) Karnataka...

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12) In which sports did Leander Paes's father VecePaes represented India?

1) Football, 2) Hockey, 3) Badminton, 4) Tennis...

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13. Match the following correctly

LIST I LIST II

A. International Literacy Day... i) Sept. 8

B. World Ozone Day ii) Sept. 14

C. World Tourism Day iii) Sept. 16

D. Hindi Day iv) Sept. 27

A B C D

(1) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)

(2) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)

(4) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

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14. Which country has recently adopted its new National Anthem?...
1) Israel, 2) Bangladesh, 3) Indonesia, 4) Nepal...
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15. Up to which year will India send man in space?...
1) 2010, 2) 2015, 3) 2020, 4) 2025...
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16. Which Indian has been awarded Ramon Magsayay Award, 2007?...
1) P. Sainath, 2) G. Madhavan Nair, 3) P.A. Sangama, 4) Arvind Kejariwal...
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17. Who has written the book, "Gifted'?...
1) Shobha De, 2) Anitha Desai, 3) Nikita Lalvani, 4) Indira Sinha...
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18. Who among the following has become the first Indian women to win the Gold Medal in the World Archery Championship?...
1) Dola Banerjee, 2) Shruthi Sinha, 3) Rashmi Chouhan, 4) Rupali Dhar...
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19. Which among the following films has got the 'Swarna Kamal Award' for Best Feature Film in 53rd National Film Awards?...
1) Parineeta, 2) Sringarm, 3) Iqbal, 4) Kaalpurush...
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20. Which country will host the next SAARC Summit in 2008?
1) Afghanisthan, 2) Maldives, 3) Nepal, 4) Bangladesh...
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21. Who has been appointed as the chairman of a high level commitee on Financial Sector Reforms?...
1) N.K. Singh, 2) S.K. Kohli, 3) Uday Kotak, 4) Raghuram G. Rajan...
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22. Which of the following is/are included in the UNESCO's natural heritage site in India?...
A) Keoladeo, B) Kaziranga National Park, C) Manas Tiger Project, D) Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve...
1) A and B, 2) B and C, 3) C and D, 4) All
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23. Which of the following is India's indigenous helicopter Weaponised Version Made its first flight recently?...
1) Dhruv, 2) Cheetah, 3) Chetak, 4) Rajhans...
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24. Which of the following has said that India will become third largest economy of the world after China and US by 2025?
1) Asian Development Bank, 2) World Bank, 3) United nations, 4) International Monetary Fund...
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25. Which of the following companies has emerged as the largest tax payer of the country during 2006-07?...
1) Aditya Birla Group, 2) Reliance Industries, 3) Hero Honda, 4) Tata Group...
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26. Which is the expanded form of 'MICR'?
1) Magnetic Ink Character Reader, 2) Magnetic Ink Code Reader, 3) Magnetic Inline Character Reader, 4) Magnetic Inline Code Reader...
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27. Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to....
1) Econometrics, 2) Monetary Economics, 3) Welfare Economics, 4) Development Economics...
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28. Who was the First Speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?...
1) G.V. Mavalankar, 2) Rabi Ray, 3) Hukam Singh, 4) Bali Ram Bhagat...
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29. How many Fundamental Duties are included in Indian Constitution?...
1) Nine, 2) Ten, 3) Eleven, 4)Twelve...
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30. In man, the normal number of chromosomes is...
1) 42, 2) 44, 3) 46, 4) 48...
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31. The name of the first cloned sheep was...
1) Jolly, 2) Dolly, 3) Rolly, 4) Molly...
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32. Who was the First Test Centurian in Indian Cricket?...
1) Vinu Mankad, 2) C.K. Naidu, 3) Lala Amarnath, 4) Mansur Ali Pataudi...
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33. Who wrote 'Long Walk to Freedom'?...
1) Nelson Mandela, 2) Aung San Suu Kyi 3) Abraham Lincoln, 4) Motilal Nehru...
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34. The currency of Bhutan is...
1) Lote, 2) Rupiah, 3) Ngultrum, 4) Shekel...
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35. Commonwealth Day is observed by Member Countries on...
1) 26 August, 2) 24 May, 3) 27 December, 4) 29 Janyary...
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36. Tapti river originates from...
1) Satpura range, 2) Amarkantak, 3) Trimbakeshwar, 4) Panchmarhi...
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37. Which contributes most to the GDP of India?
1) Iron and Steel Industries, 2) Cotton Textile Industries, 3) Railways, 4) Service Sector...
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38. Which of the following is used for ripening the fruits?
1) Acetylene, 2) Ethane, 3) Calcium Carbonate, 4) Methane...
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39. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
1) Rajendra Prasad-1949,2) John Mathai-1950, 3) Jawaharlal Nehru-1951, 4) C.D. Deshmukh-1952...
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40. The capital of Austria is..
1) Canberra, 2) Vienna, 3) Jakarta, 4) Tokyo...
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ANSWERS.....

1. (4) 2. (4) 3. (1) 4. (2) 5. (2) 6. (3) 7. (3) 8. (4) 9. (1) 10. (3)
11. (4) 12. (2) 13. (1) 14. (4) 15. (2) 16. (1) 17. (3) 18. (1) 19. (1)
20. (2)... It was scheduled to be held at Maldives but recently, it has been changed to Sri Lanka...
21. (4) 22. (4) 23. (1) 24. (2) 25. (4) 26. (1) 27. (3) 28. (1)
29. (3)... Originally there were ten fundamental duties. One was added vide 86th constitution amendment.
30. (3) 31. (2) 32. (3) 33. (1) 34. (3) 35. (None) 36. (1) 37. (4) 38. (2) 39. (3)
40. (3).....

You Too Can Win, Lead And Succeed

Dear Friends,,,

Success so eagerly and ardently sought by so many of us is not a matter of luck or genius as most of us think or believe. Success depends, to a great deal, on hard work, imagination, perserverance and pluck. If others can become great, earn name and fame, garner glory, power and wealth, you and I can also do so positively and definately. Have no doubt about it. If Lal Bahadur Shastri, Deve Gowda, Chandra Shekhar and Atal Bihari Vajpayee could become Prime Ministers of India, if Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan can become superstars and if Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and M.S. Dhoni can and earn crores of rupees through cricket, you and I also can. None of these who reached the top can boast of having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth or of a royal family background like Nehrus, Pataudis or Kapoors.

All things worth having can be had only with some effort and at some cost and sacrifice. The higher the stakes, in terms of effort, industry, time and toil, more abundant and lasting will be the results. We can be sure that there is no substitute for hard work when one desires success. To find diamonds and gold, you have to dig, sweat and search. To win the hand of your dream girl, you have to woo and prove yourself. If you want to top the list in an examination, you have to study, master the subjects and gain the knowledge and knowhow which guarantee super success.

Try, try and try again and keep trying again till you win. You are bound to win so long as you keep trying and do not yield, surrender or give up. Robert Bruce and Robin Hood learnt the moral by watching the spider which kept trying again and again despite countless falls, till at last it made it. Sage Markandeya, at his birth, was decreed to live only sixteen years but by his penance and efforts, he obtained the boon to live for ever. Princess Savitri was told that her husband Satyavan was destined to die within a year of their marriage but by her perservering efforts and persuasiveness she got the better of even Yama, the Lord of Death. The Bhil boy, Eklavya who was refused tutelage by Dronacharya for being a low-born, learnt archery hiding behind a bush to emerge a challenger to Arjuna-all through a dogged resolve to attain the denied knowledge. The passage of time has only reinforced the essence of this credo. Take the young speedster Ishant Sharma who emerged as the country's fastest bowler during the recent ODI tri-series in Australia. His outstanding performance as a bowler, who could bowl consistently at a breathtaking speed of 150 km/hour, fashioned victory for India against the World Champion Australia in the third Test at Perth. No doubt, it is his steel will and sincere dedication to his cherished goal that has made him a hero. For a scion of a lower middle class family in a peripheral Delhi colony, reaching this height of popularity and fame overnight was beyond any stretch of imagination. But Ishant, through his sheer perseverance and struggle, transformed his cherished dream into reality to become a cynosure of a vast pool of talented youngsters. His example is worth emulation for all those who believe that success--or fortune--smiles at only those who dare and act.

The motto 'Never Give Up' should be your watchword for success. Never give up for it is always wiser and better to hope than despair. Life is a game with a glorious prize only if you could play it right with determined grit. It is give and take, build and break, and often it may end in a bitter fight. But he surely wins who honestly tries with a little more persistence, courage, patience and willpower. Be up and doing, stay in the race and keep fighting and you will win as surely as day follows night.

With our very best efforts to help you lead and success......

Important DAYS in the month of APRIL

National Maritime Day... April...5

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Worlds Health Day...April...7

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World Haemophilia Day...April...17

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World Heritage Day...April...18

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Secretaries Day...April...21

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Earth Day...April...22

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World Book & Copyright Day...April...23

General Knowledge...1

1. Which film studio, set up by Himanshu Rai in 1934, produced the pionering films, Kangan Achhut Kanya and Jwar Bhata?

A: Bombay Talkies...

2. Which biochemist and critic of US nuclear policy became the first man to win two individual Nobel Prizes in different disciplines, in 1962?

A: Linus Pauling...

3. Which tendon in the human body is named after a Greek hero in the Troan War?

A: Achilles...

4. In the Ramayana, who appeared in the form of a golden deer to lure Rama away from Sita?

A: Maricha...

5. The work of which Greek mathematician is contained in the 13-volume Elements which is stiall used in geometry?

A: Euclid...

6. After which financial agent of Queen Elizabeth I is the monetary principle, 'Bad money drives out good', named?

A: Thomas Gresham (Gresham's Law)

7. After which inventor of the first digital calculator has a computer language been named?

A: Blaise Pascal...

8. Which word of German origin translates as 'battling spirit'?

A: Poltergeist...

9. Which Board of Revenue president under Lord Cornwallis evolved the Permanent Settlement System?

A: John Shore...

10. The kings of which Indian dynasty that flourished in the North West, assumed the title Devaputra?

A: Kushanas...

11. On which river does the world's largest river island Majuli stand?

A: Brahmaputra...

12. Which island in the Pacific Ocean was discovered by the Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen on Easter Sunday in 1772?

A: Easter Island...

13. Which newspaper published from Calcutta was established in 1875 by Robert Kinght as an extension of an earlier paper, Friend of India?

A: The Statesman...

14. Of which species of birds are yellow-billed, open-billed, white and saddle-billed varieties?

A: Storks...

15. Which of the Kalidasa's work is an account of the birth of the war god, Skanda?

A: Kumara Sambhava...

16. Pragjyotishpur, located on the river Brahmaputra, was the capital of which ancient Indian Kingdom?

A: Kamrupa...

17. From the abbreviation of which term did the vehicle name 'Jeep' come about?

A: General Purpose...

18. Which automobile company was founded by August Horsch and named after the German word for 'hear'?

A: Audi...

19. Which American Astronomer in 1905 predicted the existence of Pluto?

A: Percival Lowell...

20. What name was coined by mathematician Eward Kasner's nephew for the sum one followed by a hundred zeros?

A: Googol...

Good Sayings_44

861. A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year..Marty Allen
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862. The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause... Henri Louis Bergson
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863. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good... Samuel Johnson
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864. Live with all your might, as long as life has been granted.
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865. Always do your bit in life, that will help bring peace to your life.
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866. Whatever task we take up, we must give the best to it because it keeps up the spirit.
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867. To start a day, have peace of mind, then all things will follow on that note.
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868. To have peace on earth, it is a must to remove the negative feelings like selfishness, cruelty, hatred.
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869. Spiritually, we have yet to find the means to put together the world's broken pieces.
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870. If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work-but the last half.. He helps those who help themselves.
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871. If you keep a closed eye towards your worries, you can never see the beauty of sunset.
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872. Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself.
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873. To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction, is to live twice.
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874. Great men are they who see that spirit is stronger than any material force.
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875. The only values that are everlasting are spiritual and when we lose them, we lost everything
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876. All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than enjoyment.
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877. It is the spiritual fight to better human conditions, which brings serenity and peace within.
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878. God does not want us to do extraordinary things. He wants us to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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879. A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow views, he is concerned for the good of community he belongs to.
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880. It is said that there is a particular time for everything to happen, one cannot go against that and make things happen.
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841. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... H.G.Wells
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842. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.. Edward George Bulware-Lytton
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843. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go... Oscar Wilde
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844. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away... Antoine de Saint Exupery
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845. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome... Jsaac Asimov
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846. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.. Henry Ford
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847. To sit alone with my conscience will be judgement enough for me.. Charles William Stubbs
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848. What ever begun in anger ends in shame... Benamin Franklin
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849. To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals-this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life... Sir William Osler
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850. We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish.. far more than what we possess...William Arthur Ward
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851. You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth... Shira Tehrani
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852. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years... Abraham Lincoln
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853. If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come... Chinese Proverb
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854. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go... T.S. ELIOT
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855. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the udgement that something else is more important than fear... Ambrose Redmoon
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856. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators...
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857. The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action... John Dewey
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858. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall... Confucius
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859. Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close; something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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860. The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea...William Benton
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821. Ideas are the currency of success. They are what separate you from your competition... Edward de Bono *** 422. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting... Christopher Morley
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822. People are disturbed, not by things, but by the view they take of them...Epictetus
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823. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises... Demosthenes
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824. Opportunities multiply when they are seized; die when neglected... Richard Denny
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825. There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher... William Feather
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826. Habits are at first cobwebs, and then cobbles... Zig Ziglar..
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827. The biggest enterprise, and the only one we should take seriously, is to live happily... Voltaire
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828. Every man takes the limit of his own field of vision, for the limits of the world... Schopenhauer
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829. There is always a penalty for exceeding the feed limit...
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830. Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change... Thomas Hardy
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831. Logic is the art of making truth prevail... La Bruyere
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832. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five... W. Somerset Maugham
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833. Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us... Rabindranath Tagore....
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834. Intellect does not attain its full force until it attacks power... Madame De Stael
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835. Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes... ames A Froude
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836. A fine life is a thought conceived in youth and realized in maturity...Alfred de Vigny
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837. The path to happiness is always under construction...
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838. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. Without it there are only alibis... Henry Ford
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839. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance... George Bernard Shaw
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840. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it... George Bernard Shaw
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801. Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invented... Henry Kisinger
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802. If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.. James A Garfield
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803. Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has... Alphonse Karr
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804. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence... Washington
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805. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius...Gibbon

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806. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause...Voltaire
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807. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour... Robert Frost
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808. If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars... Fernan Caballero
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809. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen... Oliver Wendell Holmes
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810. A man always has two reasons for what he does a good one, and the real one... Attributed to I Pierpont
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811. Even a mistake may turn out to be the only thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement... Henry Ford
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812. Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life... Simone Weil
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813. You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club... Jack London
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814. Inventing is a combination of brains and materials The more brains you use, the less materials you need...Charles J Kettering
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815. Make no judgements where you have no compassion... Anne McCaffrey
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816. The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed... Nicolas Chamfort
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817. There must be more to life than having everything... Maurice Sendak
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818. The essence of pleasure is spontaneity... Germaine Greer
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819. Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article... PD Armour
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820. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well...
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781. Overweight is what happens to you when you live in a food paradise...
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782. Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech...
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783. Experience teaches us that there is a small but important difference between keeping your chin up and sticking your neck out...

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784. The early fish gets hooked for the same thing the early bird gets credit for...

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785. The difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions...
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786. Luck is a lazy person's estimate of a worker's success....
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787. Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives...
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788. Everyone calls "Clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as their own...Marcel Proust
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789. Ideas are like umbrellas. If they are left lying about, they are peculiarly liable to a change of ownership... Tom Kettle.
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790. Ignorance of the law excuses no man - from practicing it... Addison Mizner
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791. Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of our neighbours... Oscar Wilde
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792. The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... HP Lovecraft
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793. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind; they reflect thinking...
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794. Admitting you're wrong is a moderate way of showing you've grown a little wiser....
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795. A person doesn't learn to choose a good alternative without choosing a few bad ones...
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796. Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it...
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797. An open mind collects more riches than an open purse...
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798. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises...
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799. Every thought we think is creating our future...
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800. People who accept responsibility are the people who are making the most of their lives...
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761. Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success... Christopher Lasch

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762. The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration... Confucius

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763. Each success only buys and admission ticket to a more difficult problem.. Henry Kissinger.
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764. There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime... Maxwell
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765. Dignity consists not in processing honours, but in the consciousness that we deserve them... Aristotle
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766. I expect to pass through life but once. Let me do a good deed now, and not defer it, as I shall not pass this way again.... William Penn
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767. Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; to the one it is exceedingly long, to the other exceedingly short... Henry Ward Beecher
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768. Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act accordingly to custom... Francis Bacon
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769. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices... Attributed to William James
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770. Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic... Tryon Edwards
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771. Ethics make one's soul mannerly and wise, but logic is the armory of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons... Thomas fuller
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772. Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative... Oliver Goldsmith
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773. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker... Attributed to Helen Keller
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774. The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.
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775. The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broker... Samuel Johnson
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776. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy... Martin Luther King,Jr.
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777. Motivation is very important, but it is determination that will make you cross the highest mountain and most difficult river... Nelson Mandela
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778. For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism... Murphys Law
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779. May be we were better off when charity was a virtue instead of a tax deduction..
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780. Nothing conceals your laurels as much as resting on them...
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