“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”-Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen( APJ) Abdul Kalam was born in a small village to a boat owner and his wife. At an early age he was selling newspapers to help his family sustain themselves. His first dream to become a fighter pilot was […]
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Kalam- The Extraordinary True Story that inspired Billions
Posted: 22nd August 2015 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: APJ Abdul, birth, cardiac, essence, failure, human, kalam, life, mark, missile man, nation, nuclear, students, teacher, touch
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Albert Camus-quotes and excerpts from his written works
Posted: 28th May 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: albert, camus, Earth, evil, excerpts, freedom, happiness, history, human, idealist, ideology, imagination, justice, life, live, love, man, meaning, memories, quotes, reason, sea, stars, stupidity, suicide, war, world
Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die. I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now […]
Jean-Paul Sartre-quotes and excerpts from his writings
Posted: 25th May 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: atheist, face, family, fool, free, human, imagination, jean, man, murder, night, paul, poor, responsible, sartre
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right […]
A truly Unique website for a truly Unique Story
Posted: 7th April 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: analog, asimov, computer, galaxy, human, isaac, light, man, microvac, multivac, multivax, short, story, website
http://www.multivax.com/about.html The Last question by Isaac Asimov-1956 The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander Adell and […]
Quotes and Excerpts from The Sirens Of Titan
Posted: 12th February 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: angels, dumb, evil, good, human, jr, Kurt, life, progress, quotes, roller-coaster, sirens, titan, Vonnegut
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. […]
An excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities
Posted: 10th January 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: book, busy, charles, cities, death, dickens, heart, human, light, secret, tale, two
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its […]