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Sourav Banerjee MA,MSW (Shabda Bramha) (8842 Points)

28 October 2011

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” -- Nora Roberts

“When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.” -- Bernard Shaw

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” -- William Durant

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” -- Carl Bard

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” -- Albert Einstein

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Sourav Banerjee MA,MSW (Shabda Bramha) (8842 Points)
Replied 28 October 2011

A little information about the memorable minds that uttered those memorable words ( From wikipedia)

Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson, October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March. Additionally, some of her works were published in the UK as Sarah Hardesty.

Nora Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame.

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Sourav Banerjee MA,MSW (Shabda Bramha) (8842 Points)
Replied 28 October 2011

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.

He was most angered by what he perceived as the exploitation of the working class. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. For a short time he was active in local politics, serving on the London County Council.

He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of his play of the same name), respectively. Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honours, but accepted it at his wife's behest: she considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books to English.

Sourav Banerjee MA,MSW (Shabda Bramha) (8842 Points)
Replied 28 October 2011

William James Durant (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy, written in 1926, which one observer described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy."

He conceived of philosophy as total perspective, or, seeing things "sub specie totius," a phrase derived from Spinoza's "sub specie aeternitatis."He sought to unify and humanize the great body of historical knowledge, which had grown too voluminous and become fragmented into esoteric specialties, and to vitalize it for contemporary application.Durant was a gifted prose stylist and storyteller who won a large readership in great part because of the nature and excellence of his writing, which, in contrast to formal academic language, is lively, witty, colourful, ornate, epigrammatic, in short, "humanized."

...... I have read his book " The Story of Philosophy" and would humbly request the reader of this article to read the same. I'm sure one of you would come back someday to share your delight with me after reading the book.

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Vandana Mulchandani (Finance Manager ) (9227 Points)
Replied 28 October 2011

Great sharing.....Wonderful information of the great writers having memorable mind.......received the message which was to be communicated. Thank you Souravda.

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