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Where the mind is without Fear...Rabindranath tagore

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(Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo) by Rabindranath Tagore Gurudev Sri Rabindranath Tagore (For about poet, see the Kabuliwalah) Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high  Where knowledge is free  Where the world has not been broken up into fragments  By narrow domestic walls  Where words come out from the depth of truth  Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection  Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way  Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit  Where the mind is led forward by thee  Into ever-widening thought and action  Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake 

The Children's Hour...by H.W. Longfellow

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     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow THE ATLANTIC SPEAKS OF HIM THUS  ' N o American poet ever filled out the part quite like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. One glance at the Moses-like profile on the jacket of the new  Library of America edition  of his selected poems and prose confirms as much, a silver-hued photograph taken late in his life that makes it appear as if the domed brow and furling beard were already sculpted in marble...' 'He was certainly a grand poet, and in the public mind the grandest of his day and age. No American poet of any era, it's safe to say, has been both as awesomely prolific and prodigiously popular...;   now, the poem... THE CHILDREN'S HOUR Between the dark and the daylight,     When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations     That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me     The patter of little feet...

The three stories...by Steve Jobs

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About:  Steve Jobs belongs to the golden age of entrepreneurs in computer techware. Founder of Aplle Inc, Pixar Studios and NeXt Technologies - Jobs was essentially the person to bring forward Personal Computer Revolution. He built and designed the Macintosh - the most beautiful computers of their age. Today, Apple is probably the third most valuable company on the planet. He had made a beautiful recollection of his innate ideas at Stanford in 2005. This is his famous speech in Words. The actual video is freely available on Youtube's Stanford Channel Courtesy : Stanford College Archives "I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stay...