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Quote of the Day - Sunday Digest 12-5

2012-02-19T12:10:00.000+05:30

I have been posting quotes daily on Facebook, Twitter and Google+, ever since I joined those social media network sites. They have always been popular with my online friends. I have decided to put together last seven days' quotes in a weekly Digest, and publish on Creative Blog for GoldenTwine Informatics every Sunday so that you can benefit from reading them at one place if you missed out on various social media networks.

Quote of the Day (Sunday Digest Volume 5)

Valentine's Day Love Quotes

Valentine's Day was on Tuesday, February 14, 2012. Love is in the air.

Spreading love this week, we bring you some of our favourite love quotations every day.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

- John Winston Lennon (October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980)
was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music.

Today is Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day!

Please read my article published on official GoldenTwine Blog: Valentine’s Day
Wishes for a special Valentine's Day filled with love and happiness

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. (Romeo and Juliet)

- William Shakespeare (baptised April 26, 1564 - died April 23, 1616)
was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires; To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. (The Prophet)

- Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931)
was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. (Mark Twain's Notebook)

- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910)
better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.

- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910)
was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

- Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900)
was an Irish writer and poet.

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor.

- Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) (August 26, 1910 - September 5, 1997)
was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950.

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Quote of the Day - Sunday Digest 12-4

2012-02-12T19:55:00.000+05:30

Quote of the Day (Sunday Digest Volume 4)

Short, Shorter and Shortest Famous Quotes

This week we bring you three best short quotations every day that are all not more than fifteen words.

Short Quote
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832)
was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath.

Shorter Quote
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

- Voltaire (November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778)
François-Marie Arouet better known by the pen name Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, freedom of expression, free trade and separation of church and state.

Shortest Quote
Anger is brief madness.

- Horace (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.

Today is the 200th Birth Anniversary of Charles Dickens. We bring you all the three quotations from the same author.

Short Quote
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Shorter Quote
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Shortest Quote
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

- Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870)
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period.

Short Quote
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882)
was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

Shorter Quote
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

- William Blake (November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827)
was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

Shortest Quote
My life is my message.

- Mahatma Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948)
was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement.

Short Quote
Rules make the learner's path long, examples make it short and successful.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Born 4 BC - Died 65 AD)
was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature.

Shorter Quote
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

- Aristotle (Born 384 BC - Died 322 BC)
was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Shortest Quote
Courage is a kind of salvation.

- Plato (Born 428–427 BC - Died 348–347 BC)
was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

Today's quotes are from three great entertainers of the 20th century.

Short Quote
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney (December 5, 1901 - December 15, 1966)
was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century.

Shorter Quote
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

- Victor Borge (January 3, 1909 - December 23, 2000)
was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark, The Unmelancholy Dane, and The Great Dane.

Shortest Quote
Waiting to die is not living.

- Akira Kurasawa (March 23, 1910 - September 6, 1998)
was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

Short Quote
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

- Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 - October 23, 1872)
was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic.

Shorter Quote
Genius is one tenth inspiration and nine tenths perspiration.

- Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931)
was an American inventor and businessman.

Shortest Quote
Love is friendship set on fire.

- Jeremy Taylor (August 15, 1613 - August 13, 1667)
was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.

Short Quote
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

- John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 - May 8, 1873)
was a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant.

Shorter Quote
Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882)
was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

Shortest Quote
A leader is a dealer in hope.

- Napolean Bonaparte (August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821)
was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.

What are your favorite short quotes?

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Quote of the Day - Sunday Digest 12-3

2012-02-05T20:25:00.000+05:30

Last Monday was the 64th Martyrs Day Anniversary. Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948, by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist who felt Gandhi was sympathetic to the Muslims. January 30, hence is observed as Martyrs' Day in India. So I dedicated last week's quotes to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by publishing selected opinions and tributes of eminent personalities on Gandhi.

Please read my article published on official GoldenTwine Blog:
Martyrs’ Day of India
Homage to Mahatma Gandhi on 64th martyrs' day anniversary

Quote of the Day (Sunday Digest Volume 3)

If I am to die by the bullet of a mad man, I must do so smiling. There must be no anger within me. God must be in my heart and on my lips.
- On January 28, 1948, two days prior to his assassination.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948)
was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time…We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

- Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955)
was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time.

If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought, and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony…Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but he resisted with love instead of hate. True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confirmation of evil by the power of love.

- Martin Luther King (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)
was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

Mahatma Gandhi came and stood at the door of India’s destitute millions, clad as one of themselves, speaking to them in their own language…who else has so unreservedly accepted the vast masses of the Indian people as his flesh and blood…Truth awakened Truth.

- Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 - August 7, 1941)
was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature.

His life has inspired me ever since I was a small boy. Ahimsa or nonviolence is the powerful idea that Mahatma Gandhi made familiar throughout the world. But nonviolence does not mean the absence of violence. It is something more positive, more meaningful than that, for it depends wholly on the power of truth.

- 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, born July 6, 1935)
is the 14th and current Dalai Lama. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, and is also well known for his lifelong advocacy for Tibetans inside and outside Tibet.

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

- Haile Selassie I (July 23, 1892 - August 27, 1975)
was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.

He was right, he knew he was right, we all knew he was right. The man who killed him knew he was right. However long the follies of the violent continue, they but prove that Gandhi was right. 'Resist to the very end', he said, 'but without violence'. Of violence the world is sick. Oh, India, dare to be worthy of your Gandhi.

- Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973)
also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, was an American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. She became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Quote of the Day - Sunday Digest 12-2

2012-01-30T13:06:00.000+05:30

Last Monday was the 115th Birth Anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose, and on Wednesday we celebrated 63rd Republic Day of India. So I dedicated last week's quotes to Republic Day of India and Liberty.

Quote of the Day (Sunday Digest Volume 2)

One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next.

- Subhas Chandra Bose (January 23, 1897 - unconfirmed)
was an Indian revolutionary who led an Indian national political and military force against Britain and the Western powers during World War II. Bose was one of the most prominent leaders in the Indian independence movement and is a legendary figure in India today.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

- Martin Luther King (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)
was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

- Mahatma Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948)
was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

- Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (April 14, 1891 - December 6, 1956)
was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher, anthropologist, historian, orator, economist, editor. He was also the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of Indian Constitution.

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

- Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964)
was an Indian politician who became the first Prime Minister of independent India (1947-64) and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs.

We must re-dedicate ourselves on this day to the peaceful but sure realization of the dream that had inspired the Father of our Nation and the other captains and soldiers of our freedom struggle, the dream of establishing a classless, co-operative, free and happy society in "his country," We must remember that this is more a day of dedications than of rejoicing - dedication to the glorious task of making the peasants and workers the toilers and the thinkers fully free, happy and cultured.

- Dr Rajendra Prasad (December 3, 1884 - February 28, 1963)
was an Indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent India (January 26, 1950 - May 13, 1962).

On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and best wishes to the men and women of India who will henceforth be a citizen of a republic. I feel deeply thankful for the affection showered on me by all sections of the people, which alone enabled me to hear the burden of an office to the duties and conventions of which I had been an utter stranger.

- Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (December 10, 1878 - December 25, 1972)
was an Indian lawyer, independence activist, politician, writer and statesman. He was the last and the only Indian national Governor-General of India.

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Quote of the Day - Sunday Digest 12-1

2012-01-22T17:10:00.000+05:30

Quote of the Day (Sunday Digest Volume 1)

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

- Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865)
was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799)
was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile.

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

- Swami Vivekananda (January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902)
was the chief disciple of the 19th century saint Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

- Susan Erz (1894 - April 11, 1985)
was a British fiction writer and novelist.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.

- Daniel J Boorstin (October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004)
was an American historian, professor, attorney, and writer.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

- Alfred A Montapert
author of the book The Supreme Philosophy of Man: The Laws of Life, written in 1970.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948)
was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement.

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Google+ Sharing Feature for Blogger Blog

2011-12-15T20:07:00.000+05:30

My ofiicial blog of GoldenTwine Informatics is on self-hosted WordPress. But I have a blog on Blogger as well that's not so active due to paucity of time. But welcome news is that Blogger has now got Google+ sharing feature. This will certainly motivate me to publish on my Blogger blog more frequently.

Now on, if you have linked your Blogger blog to your Google+ profile, you will be presented with a Google+ share box immediately after publishing a post. The share box will be prefilled with a +snippet of your post that you can share with your circles on Google+.

Google's Product Manager, Bruce Polderman, announced on The Official Buzz from Blogger at Google on December 12, 2011:

Blogger Buzz
Connect to Google+
Back in October we made it possible for Blogger in Draft users to use their Google+ profile on their blog. This option is now available to all Blogger users, and as a result, we're starting to roll out the first of many Google+ features.
Read more on Blogger Buzz

You can start using the new Share to Google+ immediately if you have already chosen to use your Google+ profile on your blog.

If you haven’t yet made the switch, click here to get started.

2010-08-15T10:21:00.000+05:30

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