Ahalya
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The soft green leaves quivered with vigour. Pretty little orange flowers appeared as buds and soon bloomed, dew dribbling down the tips of the petals and the centres pregnant with pollen.
“The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed.”
― Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey
― Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey
“My wife, Rohini, visits a lot of government schools as part of her NGO reach-out. One of the questions she most likes to ask the kids is what they would like to be when they grow up. The answers are varied--'engineer,' 'teacher,' 'policeman' and, increasingly, 'computer' [sic]. But even in the rural schools, one aspiration that they never express is 'farmer”
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“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
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“Listening is an art, and you'll find a whole new world by exploring that art.”
― Quiet Is a Superpower: The Secret Strengths of Introverts in the Workplace
― Quiet Is a Superpower: The Secret Strengths of Introverts in the Workplace
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