Quotes for UPSC

A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society

B.R. Ambedkar

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@Poonthura (Kerala) beach this morning. Very rare to see shark whales off the western coast of India. Pushed back into the sea by fishermen.

I will tell you a little story. You have heard the eloquent speaker who has just  finished say, "Let us cease from abusing each other," and he was very sorry  that there should be always so much variance. But I think I should tell you a story which would illustrate the cause of this  variance. A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born  there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. Of course the evolutionists were not there then to tell us whether the frog lost its eyes or not,  but, for our story's sake, we must take it for granted that it had its eyes, and that 
it every day cleansed the water of all the worms and bacilli that lived in it with  an energy that would do credit to our modern bacteriologists. In this way it  went on and became a little sleek and fat. Well, one day another frog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well. 

"Where are you from?" 
"I am from the sea." 

"The sea! How big is that? Is it as big as my well?" and he took a leap from one side of the well to the other. 

"My friend," said the frog of the sea, "how do you compare the sea with your  little well?” 

Then the frog took another leap and asked, "Is your sea so big?"

"What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!" 

"Well, then," said the frog of the well, "nothing can be bigger than my well; 
there can be nothing bigger than this; this fellow is a liar, so turn him out."

That has been the difficulty all the while.  I am a Hindu. I am sitting in my own little well and thinking that the whole  world is my little well. The Christian sits in his little well and thinks the whole  world is his well. The Mohammedan sits in his little well and thinks that is the  whole world. I have to thank you of America for the great attempt you are  making to break down the barriers of this little world of ours, and hope that, in  the future, the Lord will help you to accomplish your purpose.

SWAMI VIVEKANADA
Addressing At The Parliament of Religion
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#swamivivekanada

African Proverb

A cat that dreams of becoming a lion must lose its appetite for rats.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand
― Hayley Williams

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

-Rosa Parks

What labels me, negates me.
― Soren Kierkegaard

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned

#Gramsci

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right , a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.

― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts" - Buddha

“The weak can never forgive; forgiveness is the attribute of strong”

Once the Buddha was sitting under a tree talking to his disciples when a man came and spat in his face.

Buddha wiped it off and asked the man, “What next? What do you want to say next?” The man was a little puzzled because he himself never expected that when you spit on somebody’s face they would ask, “What next?”

When Buddha did not react or say anything, and just smiled, this man could not sleep the whole night. The next day he came and fell at Buddha’s feet and said, “Please pardon me, I don’t know what I did.”


The anecdote highlights the value of forgiveness, how it can lead to intrinsic transformation, transform hate into love and spread mutual respect.

You may contrast it with feeling of revenge/ consequence of violent actions which are only harmful in the long run. E.g. Honour killings, caste violence etc.

Enjoy your new year guys!
Tmro will Do New year wishes and all

Compiling and Sharing
Quick Thinking Development
Course of #Ethics.

It has
- 8 lectures (2 hrs avg)
- Topic Wise Answer Writing
(both Ques and Case Studies)
- Theory Revision (briefly)
to make you understand how to use it in Answers.
- Quick reference PPTs
- An lots of Ethical Terms and Examples

1. Session 1

2. Session 2

3. Session 3

4. Session 4

5. Session 5

6. Session 6

7. Session 7 (Case Studies)

8. Session 8 (Case Studies)

Hope it helps you develop
quick and clear arguments, content, examples.

And Wishing you all a very
Happy New Year ahead 🌷

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Csat question in today's uppcs exam

Arjuna asks: "You just advised action, and yet you uphold knowledge of Brahman as the highest form of life. Krishna, if you think that knowledge is better than action, why do you tell me to act?"

[Shri Krishna]: "From ancient times these two systems have come down to us. The Sânkhya philosophers advance the theory of knowledge. The Yogis advance the theory of work. But none can attain to peace by renouncing actions. None in this life can stop activity even for a moment. Nature's qualities [Gunas] will make him act. He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work

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Bill accepted in loksabha ✅

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers.

- Socrates

For interview candidates- know your cadres.

Hardwork betrays none, but dreams betray many.

-Hikigaya Hachiman

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

Give instructions to those people who seek knowledge after they have discovered their ignorance.
-Confucius

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Two groups in Kerala paused their fight to make way for an ambulance and resumed right after.
This is REAL India🫡 🇮🇳

Activity is Not the Same as Accomplishment

There is a big difference between activity and accomplishment. This was demonstrated by a French scientist named Fable. He conducted an experiment with processionary caterpillars. Caterpillars follow the one in front of them blindly. Fable arranged them in a circle in a flowerpot so that the lead caterpillar actually wasbehind the last one forming a circle. He put pine needles (food for the caterpillars) in the center of the flowerpot. The caterpillars kept going in a circle in the pot.Eventually, after a week of circling around, they dropped dead of exhaustion andstarvation with food only inches away from them. We need to learn a lesson from thecaterpillars. Just because you are doing something, doesn't mean you are getting anywhere. One must evaluate one's activity in order to have accomplishment.


If we confuse activity with accomplishment, we could be making great time but we won't get anywhere

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

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I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture or out of our language.I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

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The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Chanukya

IMPORTANT NOTICE

UPSC has released the marks of not qualified candidates of Civil Services Examination 2023.

In South Africa in the early 1990s, a joke was making the rounds: Given the country’s daunting challenges, people had two options, one practical and the other miraculous. The practical option was for everyone to pray for a band of angels to come down from heaven and fix things. The miraculous option was for people to talk with one another until they could find a way forward.

Harvard Business School Press

Don’t worry about making friends; don’t worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can’t hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can’t stand you.

John C. Maxwell

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
— Abraham Lincoln

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.
But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

— Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Bernard Baruch

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But man's duty is to try and endeavour, success depends upon chance and environments.

Bhagat Singh

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During a robbery in Zimbabwe, the bank robber shouted to everyone in the bank: "Don't move. The money belongs to the State. Your life belongs to you."

Everyone in the bank lay down quietly. This is called the
"Mind Changing Concept" Changing the conventional way of thinking.

When a lady lay on the table provocatively, the robber shouted at her: "Please be civilized! This is a robbery and not a rape!"

This is called "Being Professional" Focus only on what you are trained to do!

When the bank robbers returned home, the younger robber (MBA-trained) told the older robber (who has only completed Year 6 in primary school): "Big brother, let's count how much we got."

The older robber rebutted and said: "You are very stupid.
There is so much money it will take us a long time to count.
Tonight, the TV news will tell us how much we robbed from the bank!"

This is called "Experience." Nowadays, experience is more important than paper qualifications!
After the robbers had left, the bank manager told the bank supervisor to call the police quickly. But the supervisor said to him: "Wait! Let us take out $10 million from the bank for ourselves and add it to the $70 million that we have previously embezzled from the bank".

This is called "Swim with the tide." Converting an unfavourable situation to your advantage!

The supervisor says: "It will be good if there is a robbery every month."
This is called "Killing Boredom."

Personal Happiness is more important than your job.

The next day, the TV news reported that $100 million was taken from the bank. The robbers counted and counted and counted, but they could only count $20 million. The robbers were very angry and complained: "We risked our lives and only took $20 million. The bank manager took $80 million with a snap of his fingers. It looks like it is better to be educated than to be a thief!"

This is called "Knowledge is worth as much as gold!"

The bank manager was smiling and happy because his losses in the share market are now covered by this robbery.

This is called "Seizing the opportunity." Daring to take risks!


So who are the real robbers here?

The 15th century Mahishasura Mardini Durga rock cut sculpture at Chabimura, Tripura, which is around 20 feet tall.

_The Story of Vibhishana_

Vibhishana, Ravana's brother, opposed Ravana's evil ways and advised him to return Sita to Rama. When Ravana refused, Vibhishana bravely defected to Rama's side, despite knowing it meant fighting against his own family.

Vibhishana's courage and conviction in standing up against his own brother and joining the side of righteousness ultimately contributed to Ravana's downfall and Rama's victory.

Vibhishana's story showcases the courage to take a stand against evil, even when it means going against one's own kin.

 “The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn.”

– Napoleon Hill

Happy Karnataka ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
― Kurt Vonnegut

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Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

– William James

In his first inaugural address, during the depths of the Great Depression, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously told Americans that, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Invoking the Book of Exodus, he went on to say that, “We are stricken by no plague of locusts.” Nothing tangible was causing the depression; the problem, in March 1933, was in people’s minds

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“Compassion and nonviolence help us to see the enemy’s point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called 'the opposition'.”

Words of Martin Luther King Jr.:

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something; your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” 
–Steve Jobs

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If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

― Fulton J. Sheen

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UPSC Essentials: Ethical Lessons from the Life of Ratan Tata
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