Paulo Coelho

What is a Good Teacher:
"It is someone who examines everything he teaches, Old ideas can't enslave men because,  with time, they have to be adapted and be given new shapes. So let us take the philosophical riches of the past and keep in mind all challenges the present world offers us".

And What is a good student?
"  It is someone who listens to what Isay, adapting my teachings to his life, but never following it literally. It is someone who doesn't look for a job, but looks for work that dignifies him. And lastly, it isn't someone who seeks to be noticed, but someone who seeks to make something notable".

Here are some of the proverbs by Confucius:-
"In order to know a man, see how he acts, find out what he seeks, examine what makes him happy".
"Those who ask are fools for five minutes. Those who don't are fools for ever".

- Paulo Coelho

Mother of all Scams

Their previous complacency brought to mind the performance of Robert Clive, in 1765, before a parliamentary select committee: Questioned about the wealth he had amassed in India, he replied memorably that considering the opportunity open ti him, he was amazed by his moderation.

Oliver Cromwell's admonishing words of 1653 to the Rump Parliament,for its myriad failures to build the New England after the civil war.

"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your practice of every vice; ye are a fractious crew, and enemies to all good Government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage.... Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your god; which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes?... Ye have grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; ye were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed and are yourselves gone.... In the name of god, go!"
 -from Mother of all scams in Britain by Premen Addy. 'Pioneer, page 9,May 26, 2009, Bhubaneshwar