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		<title>Quotes to Quote &#8211; XVII</title>
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<div align="justify">Change, they say, is the only constant. Whether we like it or not, change happens, and it is best if we prepare ourselves for it. Here are a few quotes on change that you might just like. </div>
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<div align="justify"><font color="#800000"><strong>A</strong></font>ll change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. <br /><em>Ellen Glasgow </em></p>
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<p><font color="#800000"><strong>A</strong></font>ny change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. <br /><em>Arnold Bennett </em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>I</strong></font>f we don&#8217;t change, we don&#8217;t grow. If we don&#8217;t grow, we aren&#8217;t really living. <br /><em>Gail Sheehy </em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>I</strong></font>f you don&#8217;t like something, change it. If you can&#8217;t change it, change your attitude. <br /><em>Maya Angelou</em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>T</strong></font>hey always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. <br /><em>Andy Warhol </em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>W</strong></font>e did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. <br /><em>Lynn Hall</em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>C</strong></font>hange your thoughts and you change your world.<br /><em>Norman Vincent Peale</em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>T</strong></font>he world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. <br /><em>Charles Kettering</em></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>Y</strong></font>ou must be the change you wish to see in the world. <br /><em>Mohandas Gandhi </em></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>E</strong></font>very great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. <br /><em>Harriet Tubman</em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>T</strong></font>o exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.<br /><em>Henri Bergson</em></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>H</strong></font>e that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. <br /><em>Tryon Edwards </em></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>N</strong></font>ot everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.<br /><em>James Arthur Baldwin </em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>T</strong></font>here is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.<br /> <em>Euripides</em></div>
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		<title>You Got What You Asked For</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<div align="justify">In our last poll, not surprisingly, we had asked you who you thought was your choice for the next Indian Prime Minister. The poll was on the site for longer than usual because we wanted to wait for the actual results before we announced who you wanted to be the next Indian Prime Minister.</p>
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<p>As the results above show, a majority of the MAG readers wanted Mr. Manmohan Singh to be the next Indian Prime Minister. Well, you got what you wanted. </p>
<p>It seems like the majority of you, the majority of the country also wanted to see Mr. Manmohan Singh become only the second man to become Prime Minister of India for two consecutive terms. Now, that he has the mandate, let us see what he does with it. Surprisingly, it seems that thoughRahul Gandhi had a huge effect on the voters, not many want to see him as the Prime Minister, at least not yet. </p>
<p>Mr. L. K. Advani, along with his IT savvy team, tried really hard to persuade the voters to vote for him and his party. Somehow, it seems that he only managed to push the voters away. The harder he tried, the farther away the votes went. </p>
<p>Interestingly, the option of Ms. Mayawati as Prime Minister got no takers. This trend was reflected in the election results too, where her party did not perform on lines she was expecting.</p>
<p>The formation of the new, stable, government is being seen as a good sign for the economy. It seems that the days of the recession are numbered now. Not only in India, but people all over the world are beginning to think that the economies have hit their worst, and an upturn is just around the corner. What do you think? Leave a comment, and participate in the new poll.<br />
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		<title>Laugh it Up -XV</title>
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<p>&#8220;I have to have a raise,&#8221; the man said to his boss. &#8220;There are three other companies after me.&#8221;<br />&#8220;Is that so?&#8221; asked the manager.<br />&#8220;What other companies are after you?&#8221;<br />&#8220;The electric company, the telephone company, and the gas company,&#8221; said the man. </p>
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<p align="justify">The CEO was scheduled to give the keynote address at an important convention so he asked one of his top employees, John, to write a punchy, 20 minute speech for him. When the CEO returned from the big event, he was furious. &#8220;What&#8217;s the idea of writing me an hour long speech?!&#8221;? he demanded. <br /> &#8220;Half the audience walked out before I was finished.&#8221;<br />John was baffled. &#8220;I wrote you a 20 minute speech,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;I also gave you the two extra copies you asked for.&#8221;</p>
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<p align="justify"> Boss (to the new employee): &#8220;We are very keen on cleanliness. Did you wipe your feet on the mat as you came in?&#8221;<br /> ?New employee: &#8220;Yes, sir.&#8221;<br />Boss: &#8220;We are also keen on truthfulness. There is no mat.&#8221;</p>
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<p align="justify">The father of five children had won a toy at a raffle. He called his kids together to ask which one should have the present.<br />&#8220;Who is the most obedient?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Who never talks back to mother? Who does everything she says?&#8221;<br />Five small voices answered in unison, &#8220;Okay, daddy, you get the toy.&#8221; </p>
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<p align="justify"> Mother : &#8220;What are you writing Ram?&#8221;<br />Ram : &#8220;I&#8217;m writing a Letter to Baby Sham&#8221;<br />Mother : &#8220;But you don&#8217;t know to write!&#8221;<br />Ram : &#8220;So What?, Sham doesn&#8217;t know how to read either.&#8221;</p>
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<p align="justify"> A man was sitting in a bar and noticed a group of people using sign language. He also noticed that the bartender was using sign language to speak to them. When the bartender returned to him, the man asked how he had learned to use sign language. The bartender explained that these were regular customers who had taught him to sign. The man thought that was great. A few minutes later, the man noticed that the people in the group were waving their hands around very wildly. The bartender looked over and signed, &#8220;Now cut that out! I warned you!&#8221; and threw the group out of the bar. The man asked why he had done that, and the bartender said, &#8220;If I told them once, I&#8217;ve told them a 100 times &#8212; NO SINGING IN THE BAR!&#8221;</p>
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<p align="justify">Two college students, Frank and Matt, are riding on a New York City subway when a beggar approaches them asking for spare change. <br />Frank adamantly rejects the man in disgust. Matt, on the other hand, whips out his wallet, pulls out a couples of singles and gladly hands them over to the beggar with a smile. The beggar thanks him kindly and then continues on to the other passengers. Frank is outraged by his friend&#8217;s act of generosity. &#8220;What on earth did you do that for?&#8221; shouts Frank. &#8220;You know he&#8217;s only going to use it on drugs or booze.&#8221;<br />Matt replies, &#8220;And we weren&#8217;t?&#8221;</p>
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<p align="justify"> A college drama group presented a play in which one character would stand on a trapdoor and announce, &#8220;I descend into hell!&#8221; A stagehand below would then pull a rope, the trapdoor would open, and the character would plunge through. The play was well received. When the actor playing the part became ill, another actor who was quite overweight took his place. When the new actor announced, &#8220;I descend into hell!&#8221; the stagehand pulled the rope, and the actor began his plunge, but became hopelessly stuck. No amount of tugging on the rope could make him descend. One student in the balcony jumped up and yelled: &#8220;Hallelujah! Hell is full!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Caption This &#8211; XX</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet The winner for &#8220;Caption This &#8211; XIX&#8221; is Vidya for her caption, &#8220;Eternal Bliss in a Chaotic World&#8221;. Do you think you have it in you to write a winning Caption? Well, here is your chance. Caption this fortnight&#8217;s photo, and if your caption is the best, you win, and your name will be [...]]]></description>
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<p align="justify">The winner for &#8220;Caption This &#8211; XIX&#8221; is Vidya for her caption, &#8220;<strong>Eternal Bliss in a Chaotic World&#8221;</strong>. </p>
<p align="justify">Do you think you have it in you to write a winning Caption? Well, here is your chance. Caption this fortnight&#8217;s photo, and if your caption is the best, you win, and your name will be announced on the front page of? <a href="/"><font color="#800000"><strong>The MAG</strong></font></a>.</p>
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<p align="justify">The picture you have to caption to win Caption This &#8211; XX is:</p>
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<p align="justify">Caption the above picture, and if your caption is the best, you could get your name on the front page of The MAG (with a link to your site, if you have one). The rules for the contest are as follows:</p>
<div align="justify">1. Leave your caption as a comment in the box below.<br />2. Leave your name <strong>and</strong> your email id, so that we can contact you&#8230;if you win, that is.<br />3. The winner will be chosen only if there are at least five valid entries for the contest.</div>
<div align="justify">4. The winner will be chosen by the Editorial body of <strong>The MAG,</strong> and no disputes in this context will be entertained.</p>
<p>And that is all there is to it.<br />
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		<title>Quotes to Quote &#8211; XVI</title>
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<p>Today we are all looking for one thing &#8211; Success. The definition of success might differ for each one of us, but the path to get there is the same. Here are a few quotes about success by people who manged to be successful.</p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>A</strong></font>ction is the foundational key to all success. <br /><em>Pablo Picasso </em></p>
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<p><strong><font color="#800000">D</font></strong>efeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.<br /> <em>George Edward Woodberry </em></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>S</strong></font>uccess without honour is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won&#8217;t taste good.<br /><em>Joe Paterno </em></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>T</strong></font>he person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.<br /><em>Cecil B. DeMille</em></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>D</strong></font>evelop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.<br /> <em>Dale Carnegie </em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>D</strong></font>on&#8217;t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.<br /> <em>David Frost </em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>I</strong></font>n order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.<br /> <em>Bill Cosby </em></p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>S</strong></font>uccess is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.<br /> <em>Sir Winston Churchill</em></p>
<p><strong><font color="#800000">J</font></strong>udge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.<br /> <em>Author Unknown</em></p>
<p><strong><font color="#800000">S</font></strong>uccess is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.<br /> <em>Walter Cronkite</em> </p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>O</strong></font>ne secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. <br /><em>Benjamin Disraeli </em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>S</strong></font>uccess is simple. Do what&#8217;s right, the right way, at the right time. <br /><em>Arnold H. Glasow </em></p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>S</strong></font>uccess is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, but, as by the obstacles which he has overcome. <br /><em>Booker T. Washington</em></p>
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		<title>Caption This &#8211; XIX</title>
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<p align="justify">Unfortunately, we have no winner for &#8220;Caption This &#8211; XVIII&#8221;. However, that can change with this fortnight&#8217;s picture. </p>
<p>Do you think you have it in you to write a winning Caption? Well, here is your chance. Caption this fortnight&#8217;s photo, and if your caption is the best, you win, and your name will be announced on the front page of? <font color="#800000"><strong>The MAG</strong></font>.</p>
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<p>The picture you have to caption to win Caption This &#8211; XIX is: </p>
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<p>Caption the above picture, and if your caption is the best, you could get your name on the front page of The MAG (with a link to your site, if you have one). The rules for the contest are as follows:
<div align="justify">1. Leave your caption as a comment in the box below.<br />2. Leave your name <strong>and</strong> your email id, so that we can contact you&#8230;if you win, that is.<br />3. The winner will be chosen only if there are at least five valid entries for the contest.</div>
<div>4. The winner will be chosen by the Editorial body of <strong>The MAG,</strong> and no disputes in this context will be entertained.</p>
<p>And that is all there is to it.<br />
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		<title>Laugh it Up! &#8211; XIV</title>
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<p>One day I was walking down the beach with some friends when someone shouted, &#8220;Look at that dead bird!&#8221; <br />Someone looked up at the sky and, said : &#8220;Where???&#8221; </p>
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<p>While working at a pizza parlor I observed a man ordering a small pizza to go. <br />He appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he would like it cut into 4 pieces or 6. <br />He thought about it for some time before responding. &#8220;Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m hungry enough to eat 6 pieces.&#8221;</p>
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<p>A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.  The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah (in bible) was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. <br /> The little girl said, &#8220;When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah&#8221;. <br /> The teacher asked, &#8220;What if Jonah went to hell?&#8221; <br /> The little girl replied, &#8220;Then you ask him&#8221;.</p>
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<p> The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. &#8220;Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, &#8220;There&#8217;s Jennifer, she&#8217;s a lawyer,&#8221; or &#8220;That&#8217;s Michael, He&#8217;s a doctor.&#8221;<br /> A small voice at the back of the room rang out, &#8220;And there&#8217;s the teacher, she&#8217;s dead.&#8221; </p>
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<p>Joe and Joan were sitting down to their usual morning cup of coffee listening to the weather report on the radio. &#8220;There will be 3 to 5 inches of snow today, and a snow emergency has been declared,&#8221; the weather report said. &#8220;You must park your cars on the odd numbered side of the streets.&#8221; Joe said, &#8220;Jeez, okay,&#8221; and got up from his coffee.<br />The next day they were sitting down with their morning cups of coffee. The weather forecast was, &#8220;There will be 2 to 4 inches of snow today, and a snow emergency has been declared. You must park your cars on the even numbered side of the streets.&#8221; Again Joe replied, &#8220;Jeez, okay,&#8221; and got up from his coffee. </p>
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<p>Two days later, again they`re sitting down with their cups of coffee and the weather forecast said, &#8220;There will be 6 to 8 inches of snow today, and a snow emergency has been declared. You must park your cars on the&#8230;&#8221; and the power went out and Joe didn`t get the rest of the instructions.He turned to Joan, &#8220;Jeez, what am I going to do now, Joan?&#8221;<br />Joan replied, &#8220;Aw, Joe, just leave the car in the darned garage today.&#8221; </p>
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<p>Three buddies are sitting around talking one day when they begin to discuss what they would like their friends and families to say about them as they`re laying in their caskets at their funerals.<br />The first man says, &#8220;I would like to hear them say that I was a great doctor of my time, and a great family man.&#8221; <br />The second man says, &#8220;I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher which made a huge difference in our children of tomorrow.&#8221;<br />The last guy replies, &#8220;I would like to hear them say&#8230; LOOK!! HE`S MOVING!!!&#8221; </p>
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<p>The manager of a large corporation got a heart attack, and the doctor told him to go for several weeks to a farm to relax. The guy went to a farm, and after a couple of days he was very bored, so he asked the farmer to give him some job to do.<br />The farmer told him to clean the shit of the cows. The farmer thought that to somebody coming from the city, working the whole life sitting in an office, it will take over a week to finish the job, but for his surprise the manager finished the job in less than one day.<br />The next day the farmer gave to the manager a more difficult job: to cut the heads of 300 chickens. The farmer was sure that the manager will not be able to do the job, but at the end of the day the job was done.<br />The next morning, as most of the jobs in the farm were done, the farmer asked the manager to divide a bag of potatoes in two boxes: one box with small potatoes, and one box with big potatoes.<br />At the end of the day the farmer saw that the manager was sitting in front of the potatoes bag, but the two boxes were empty.<br />The farmer asked the manager, &#8220;How is that you made such difficult jobs during the first days, and now you cannot do this simple job?&#8221;<br />The manager answered, &#8220;Listen, all my life I&#8217;m cutting heads and dealing with shit, but now you ask me to make decisions.&#8221; </p>
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<p>The young lady came home from a date, rather sad. She told her mother, &#8220;Jeff proposed to me an hour ago.&#8221;<br />&#8220;Then why are you so sad?&#8221; her mother asked.<br />&#8220;Because he also told me he was an atheist. Mom, he doesn`t even believe there`s a hell.&#8221;<br />Her mother replied, &#8220;Marry him anyway. Between the two of us, we`ll show him how wrong he is.&#8221; </p>
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<p>Why One Should Never Visit a Five Star Hotel&#8230;<br />Question: What would you like to have&#8230; Fruit juice, Soda, Tea, Chocolate, Milo, or Coffee?<br />Answer: Tea please.</p>
<p>Question: Ceylon tea, Herbal tea, Bush tea, Honey bush tea, Ice tea or green tea?<br />Answer: Ceylon tea.</p>
<p>Question: How would you like it? Black or white?<br />Answer: White</p>
<p>Question: Milk, Whitener, or Condensed milk?<br />Answer: With milk.</p>
<p>Question: Goat milk, Camel milk or cow milk<br />Answer: With cow milk please.</p>
<p>Question: Milk from Freeze land cow or Afrikaner cow?<br />Answer: Um, I&#8217;ll take it black.</p>
<p>Question: Would you like it with sweetener, sugar or honey?<br />Answer: With sugar.</p>
<p>Question: Beet sugar or cane sugar?<br />Answer: Cane sugar.</p>
<p>Question: White, brown or yellow sugar?<br />Answer: Forget about tea just give me a glass of water instead.</p>
<p>Question: Mineral water or still water?<br />Answer: Mineral water.</p>
<p>Question: Flavored or non-flavored?<br />Answer: I&#8217;ll rather die of thirst.</p>
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<p>A college student writes to his parents&#8230;<br />Dear Mom and Dad,<br />I feel miserable because I have to keep writing for money. I feel ashamed and unhappy. I have to ask for another two hundred, but every cell in my body rebels. I beg on bended knee that you forgive me.<br />Your son,<br />Johnnie.<br />P.S. -? I felt so terrible, I ran after the mailman who picked this up in the box at the corner. I wanted to take this letter and burn it. I prayed that I could get it back. But it was too late.<br />A few days later he received a letter from his father. It said,<br />&#8220;Your prayers were answered. Your letter never arrived!&#8221; </p>
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<p>A Captain asked a sailor, &#8220;Where did your father die?&#8221; <br />&#8220;He drowned at sea.&#8221;<br />&#8220;And your grandfather?&#8221;<br />&#8220;At sea too.&#8221;<br />&#8220;Aren?t you afraid of the sea?&#8221;<br />The sailor retorted, &#8220;Sir, where did your father die?&#8221;<br />&#8220;In bed.&#8221;<br />&#8220;And your grandfather?&#8221;<br />&#8220;In bed too.&#8221;<br />&#8220;Sir, aren?t you afraid to go to bed every night where your father and grandfather died?&#8221; </p>
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<p>Recently I answered the phone and it was a sales person from a long distance company. They asked for my late father by name. <br />&#8220;I`m sorry,&#8221; I answered, &#8220;but he`s dead.&#8221; <br />Their reply, &#8220;May I leave a number in case the situation changes?&#8221; </p>
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		<title>Quotes to Quote &#8211; XV</title>
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<div align="justify"><font color="#800000"><strong>F</strong></font>aith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. <br />Voltaire </div>
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<div align="justify"><font color="#800000"><strong>F</strong></font>aith is taking the first step even when you don&#8217;t see the whole staircase. <br />Martin Luther King, Jr. </p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>F</strong></font>aith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. <br />Saint Augustine </p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>I</strong></font>n faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don&#8217;t. <br />Blaise Pascal </p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>F</strong></font>aith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. <br />E. M. Forster </p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>H</strong></font>e who has faith has&#8230; an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well &#8211; even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. <br />B. C. Forbes </p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>T</strong></font>reat the other man&#8217;s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine. <br /> Henry S. Haskins </p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>F</strong></font>aith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. <br /> Rabindranath Tagore </p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>F</strong></font>aith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. <br /> Carter Lindberg </p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>F</strong></font>aith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.  <br /> George Seaton </p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>F</strong></font>aith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.<br /> Blaise Pascal </p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>A </strong></font>garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.Gladys Taber </p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>T</strong></font>he brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.<br /> George Santayana </p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>I</strong></font>t&#8217;s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. <br /> Oliver Wrendell Homes </p>
<p> <font color="#800000"><strong>F</strong></font>aith is a passionate intuition.<br /> William Wordsworth </div>
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		<title>Changing Face of Television</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet How tired I am of? watching all the vampish household melodrama on T.V?? If you haven&#8217;t guessed, I am talking of the dramatic, unpredictable soaps of the Ekta Kapoor camp, and the copycats. Every eligible man on these serials &#8211; given enough time &#8211; conceives a child with every other eligible woman, giving rise [...]]]></description>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.14in" class="western" align="justify">How tired I am of? watching all the vampish household melodrama on T.V?? If you haven&#8217;t guessed, I am talking of the dramatic, unpredictable soaps of the Ekta Kapoor camp, and the copycats. Every eligible man on these serials &#8211; given enough time &#8211; conceives a child with every other eligible woman, giving rise to one big wholesome family of interwoven relationships. The saying &#8211; ?this world is one big family? comes true, only in these serials. And mind it, all these are highly moral and ideal families of the reel world.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.14in" class="western" align="justify">For around 7-8 years this false melodrama has ruled the roost, draining the audience emotionally. I remember my mom?s colleagues sulking and not attending office the day after? the reel screen hero <em>Mihi</em>r died on screen. These soaps put a question mark on some of the societal norms. In these soaps divorce and extra- marital have become easy, and matters treated as lightly as one would contemplate a change of a dress. This certainly has affected the whole mass that watches these soaps. According to some surveys there has been a manifold increase in divorce rate in real world as a result of? these on-screen divorces and infidelities. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.14in" class="western" align="justify">Now, it seems,? that the era of melodrama is almost over and some meaningful soaps are back on air. These are educative and are made with the intention to bring reform. Though the educative programmes had always existed on television on channels like DD national,? DD metro (which is now off-air), and one or two such serials on almost all the channels, these managed to garner only a few viewers. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.14in" class="western" align="justify">But, it seems that now more tastefully dished out reformative soaps are coming up, and these are able to carve out a decent fan following for themselves. Some examples are serials like <em>?Balika Vadhu?</em> on Colors; a saga of the evils of child marriage and the stale old customs which still exist. This programme ends with an educative summary talking of the ills in the society and an informative message. <em> ?Jyoti?</em> on NDTV Imagine is another serial about the struggles of a middle class girl striking balance between modernity and age-old irrelevant traditions. Then, there are many more like <em>Lado</em> and <em>Rajuben</em>, which might bring in some reform along with intellectuality. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.14in" class="western" align="justify">Though the television business is more about profits, TRPs and changing fashion, yet if it manages to reconcile its goal with the bigger and nobler motive of educating, we have nothing to complain about. It then becomes a win-win situation. Does it not?</p>
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		<title>Caption This &#8211; XVIII</title>
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<p align="justify">Sadly, there was no winner for &#8220;Caption This &#8211; XVII&#8221;. However, that can change with this fortnight&#8217;s picture. </p>
<p>You think you have the creative streak in you. Well, here is your chance. Caption this fortnight&#8217;s photo, and if your caption is the best, you win, and your name will be announced to the world on <font color="#800000"><strong>The MAG</strong></font>.? </p>
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<p>The picture you have to caption to win Caption This &#8211; XVIII is: </p>
<div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k139/neobluepanther/StreetScene.jpg" border="0" alt="Street Scene" title="Street Scene" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="497" height="362" /></div>
<p align="center">?(Photo by Otilius. Visit <a href="http://otilius.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">New York Nitty-Gritty</a> for more of his photos)? </p>
<p align="justify">Caption the above picture, and if your caption is the best, you could get your name on the front page of The MAG (with a link to your site, if you have one). The rules for the contest are as follows:</p>
<div align="justify">1. Leave your caption as a comment in the box below.<br />2. Leave your name <strong>and</strong> your email id, so that we can contact you&#8230;if you win, that is.<br />3. The winner will be chosen only if there are at least five valid entries for the contest.</div>
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<div align="justify">4. The winner will be chosen by the Editorial body of <strong>The MAG,</strong> and no disputes in this context will be entertained.</p>
<p>And that is all there is to it.</p></div>
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