How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.
From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. Although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates -- Epictetus
From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. Although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates -- Epictetus
For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water is a common heritage, the value of which must be recognized by all. Everyone has the duty to use water carefully and economically.
Some methods to reduce water usage:
1. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has been adopted by several farmers especially in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.
2. zero-tillage, raised-bed by planting, precision farming and drip or sprinkler irrigation
3. Participatory Governance community ponds and recharge wells
4. Lessons can also be drawn from the work of Sankalpa Rural Development Society (SRDS) which has been training farmers of Karnataka on revival of defunct borewells.
#WaterConservation
#Environment #Agriculture
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water is a common heritage, the value of which must be recognized by all. Everyone has the duty to use water carefully and economically.
Some methods to reduce water usage:
1. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has been adopted by several farmers especially in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.
2. zero-tillage, raised-bed by planting, precision farming and drip or sprinkler irrigation
3. Participatory Governance community ponds and recharge wells
4. Lessons can also be drawn from the work of Sankalpa Rural Development Society (SRDS) which has been training farmers of Karnataka on revival of defunct borewells.
#WaterConservation
#Environment #Agriculture
"The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development."
Indira Gandhi
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"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
Indira Gandhi
#Environment #development #Righttospeech
Indira Gandhi
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"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
Indira Gandhi
#Environment #development #Righttospeech
Conservation is life..
“Hi human mates! This is me trying to catch a few Z's after eating some yummy eucalyptus leaves. I used to be able to sleep and chill real good, but as of late I just can’t because I’m really worried. Your actions are destroying the ecosystems where I live. Me and my mates could disappear in a matter of years, and you could be next. Please, don’t leave us hanging. Act now #ForNature before it is too late". Signed, Sleepless Koala in Sydney.
There may be days when I can't help an animal in need, but the day will never come that I won't try. - Paul Oxton
"The greatness of a nation and its more progress can be judged by the way its Animals are treated"- Mahatma Gandhi
#Wildlife #AnimalRights
“Hi human mates! This is me trying to catch a few Z's after eating some yummy eucalyptus leaves. I used to be able to sleep and chill real good, but as of late I just can’t because I’m really worried. Your actions are destroying the ecosystems where I live. Me and my mates could disappear in a matter of years, and you could be next. Please, don’t leave us hanging. Act now #ForNature before it is too late". Signed, Sleepless Koala in Sydney.
There may be days when I can't help an animal in need, but the day will never come that I won't try. - Paul Oxton
"The greatness of a nation and its more progress can be judged by the way its Animals are treated"- Mahatma Gandhi
#Wildlife #AnimalRights
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
– E.O. Wilson
No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens. – Michelle Obama
To educate girls is to reduce poverty. – Kofi Annan
@upsc_essay_quotes
#GirlChild #GirlEducation #Education
– E.O. Wilson
No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens. – Michelle Obama
To educate girls is to reduce poverty. – Kofi Annan
@upsc_essay_quotes
#GirlChild #GirlEducation #Education
It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
The world doesn’t belong to leaders. The world belongs to all humanity.
Dalai Lama
@upsc_essay_quotes
#Happiness #GrossHappinessIndex
#CulturalPoverty #HumanDevelopmentIndex
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
The world doesn’t belong to leaders. The world belongs to all humanity.
Dalai Lama
@upsc_essay_quotes
#Happiness #GrossHappinessIndex
#CulturalPoverty #HumanDevelopmentIndex
"Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” » Grace Abbott
Small Hands Can Handle A Pen Better.
India is at the 113th position out of 176 countries on an index that evaluates countries on the well being of children.
According to the National Census 2011, the total child population in India in the age group of 5-14 years is about 260 million. Of these, about 10 million (about 4%) of the total child population are child labourers working either as the main or marginal workers.
In the age group of 15-18 years, India has around 23 million working children. This means one in eleven children between the ages of five and eighteen years in the country are working.
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#ChildLabour #EducationPoverty
Small Hands Can Handle A Pen Better.
India is at the 113th position out of 176 countries on an index that evaluates countries on the well being of children.
According to the National Census 2011, the total child population in India in the age group of 5-14 years is about 260 million. Of these, about 10 million (about 4%) of the total child population are child labourers working either as the main or marginal workers.
In the age group of 15-18 years, India has around 23 million working children. This means one in eleven children between the ages of five and eighteen years in the country are working.
@upsc_essay_quotes
#ChildLabour #EducationPoverty
Leaders bleed, period.
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
One should concentrate on that body dying near road first rather than those blood stains on her skirt...
I hate men who say girls are weak , can you bleed for seven days straight and not die ?
According to a UNICEF study conducted in 2011:
Only 13% of girls in India are aware of menstruation before menarche.
60% of girls missed school on account of menstruation.
79% faces low confidence due to menstruation and 44% were embarrassed and humiliated over restrictions.
Thereby, Menstruation adversely impacts women's education, equality, maternal and child health.
More than 77% of menstruating girls and women in India use old cloth, which is often reused, ashes, newspapers, dried leaves and husk sand during periods.
Govt Initiatives to Promote Menstruation Hygiene management in India?
@upsc_essay_quotes
#MenstruationHygiene #WomenEmpowerment #Health
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
One should concentrate on that body dying near road first rather than those blood stains on her skirt...
I hate men who say girls are weak , can you bleed for seven days straight and not die ?
According to a UNICEF study conducted in 2011:
Only 13% of girls in India are aware of menstruation before menarche.
60% of girls missed school on account of menstruation.
79% faces low confidence due to menstruation and 44% were embarrassed and humiliated over restrictions.
Thereby, Menstruation adversely impacts women's education, equality, maternal and child health.
More than 77% of menstruating girls and women in India use old cloth, which is often reused, ashes, newspapers, dried leaves and husk sand during periods.
Govt Initiatives to Promote Menstruation Hygiene management in India?
@upsc_essay_quotes
#MenstruationHygiene #WomenEmpowerment #Health
Climate is always evolving, and natural disaster have always existed. - Marco Rubio
If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do. - Warren Rudman
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster. Jim Wallis
DATA FACTS
* Rise in sea temperature and sea level leads to loss of marine ecosystems and biodiversity, salination, erosion and flooding and also increases occurrence and intensity of storms along entire shoreline.
** Low end scenarios estimate sea levels in Asia will be at least 40 cm higher by 2100. The IPCC calculates that it would expose 13–94 million people to flooding, with about 60% of this total in South Asia.
How can we change Future Flood preparedness by including Landscape changes so as to mitigate loss of lives & livelihood?
@upsc_essay_quotes
#NaturalDisaster #AssamFloods #Floods
If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do. - Warren Rudman
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster. Jim Wallis
DATA FACTS
* Rise in sea temperature and sea level leads to loss of marine ecosystems and biodiversity, salination, erosion and flooding and also increases occurrence and intensity of storms along entire shoreline.
** Low end scenarios estimate sea levels in Asia will be at least 40 cm higher by 2100. The IPCC calculates that it would expose 13–94 million people to flooding, with about 60% of this total in South Asia.
How can we change Future Flood preparedness by including Landscape changes so as to mitigate loss of lives & livelihood?
@upsc_essay_quotes
#NaturalDisaster #AssamFloods #Floods
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. —Benjamin Franklin
Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
#SPEECH #RIGHTTOSPEECH #FREEDOM #CONSTRUCTIVE_CRITICISM
Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
#SPEECH #RIGHTTOSPEECH #FREEDOM #CONSTRUCTIVE_CRITICISM
'A rich cultural heritage depends on the ability of people to maintain their distinctiveness and unique identities'.
"There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultaion" 'Ali Ibn Abu Talib
"Culture is a way of thinking, a set of values, a belief system that influences our behaviour. It's really a combination of things. It can come from our ethnic background, our religion and society as a whole." ' Frank Olivas
#Heritage #Art&Culture
"There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultaion" 'Ali Ibn Abu Talib
"Culture is a way of thinking, a set of values, a belief system that influences our behaviour. It's really a combination of things. It can come from our ethnic background, our religion and society as a whole." ' Frank Olivas
#Heritage #Art&Culture
On Faith : Philosophical essay quotes
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan
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On Religion: Philosophical Essay
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton
God has no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton
God has no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama
@upsc_essay_quotes
#onCorruption #corruptionPerceptionIndex
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
- Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
- mahatma gandhi
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- John Steinbeck
What is India's Rank in Corruption Perception Index? Why has the rank been at such dismally low category? What are its impacts? Provide Solutions along with real life examples.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
- Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
- mahatma gandhi
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- John Steinbeck
What is India's Rank in Corruption Perception Index? Why has the rank been at such dismally low category? What are its impacts? Provide Solutions along with real life examples.