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INSPIRATIONAL WORDS

      "All the powers in the universe are already ours.  It is we who have put our hands before our eyes, and cry that it is dark. Know that there is no darkness around us.  Take the hands away and there is the light which was from the beginning.  Darkness never existed, weakness never existed . We who are fools cry that we are weak; we who are fools cry that we are impure."                                 -Swami Vivekananda

TODAY'S WORD/PHRASE

HONEYMOON:     Honeymoon is the month after marriage or so much of it as it as is spent away from home.  It is so called from the practice of the ancient - feutons of drinking honey wine for thirty days aftr marriage. 

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"Remember the words of Christ - "Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true - not figures or fiction."                                   -Swami Vivekananda                                 

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EVIL EYE: In olden days it is believed that the eyes of certain persons give out noxious rays on objects which they looks upon.  The first morning glances of such eyes was certain destruction to man or beast, but the destruction was infrequently the result of starvation. Virgil speaks of an evil eye making cattle lean.

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  ELDORADO: T his means a fictitious country or city having plenty of gold. It was believed in the days of the Spanish explorers that  somewhere in South America there was a country abounding in gold and precious stones.  The term is used to denote any place  of rich promise.

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" Men, men, these are wanted; everything else will be  ready,but  strong, vigorous, believing young men, sincere to the  backbone, are wanted. A hundred such and the world becomes  revolutionised."

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CARPET KNIGHT: This term is used to refer to a "stay-at-home" soldier.  Civilians in olden days who were honoured with knighthood were styled "Carpet Knights'.  This was because they received the honour during times of peace kneeling on a carpet in the presence of a king".