"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

Wisdom, Thunder, Lightning, Physics, Danger

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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

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"I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!"

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"If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures."

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"God has greater things in stock for us, but unless our great things are given away, we can't receive our greater things. Give big and you'll receive bigger!"

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"Don't give up the fight. Don't dim out the light. Those who at first don't believe in you, will soon begin to ask you "how did you do it? Keep it up!"

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"A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character."

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"Money should not direct you to what to do and what not to do, the giver of the money is responsible for playing that role."

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"Wisdom does not only reflect itself in a person's knowledge of what to say. It appears also in his knowledge about how to say it and when it should be said!"

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"The deep breathe you just took to show that your problems are bigger than you, is the final breathe someone had taken right now in his life! As long as your breathe is not the final one, you still have a hope!"

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