Contradictory proverbs....

Every Action has an equal and an opposite reaction.

Similarly, every proverb has an equal and an opposite proverb! There always exists two sides of the same coin.

U be the judge..

All good things come to those who wait.

BUT
Time and tide wait for no man.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

BUT
Actions speak louder than words.

Wise men think alike.

BUT
Fools seldom differ.

The best things in life are free things..

BUT
There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Slow and steady wins the race.

BUT
Time waits for no man.

Look before you leap.

BUT
Strike while the iron is hot.

Do it well, or not at all.

BUT
Half a loaf is better than none.

Birds of a feather flock together.

BUT
Opposites attract.

Don't cross your bridges before you come to them.

BUT
Forewarned is forearmed.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.

BUT
Faith will move mountains.

Great starts make great finishes.

BUT
It ain't over 'till it's over.

Practice makes perfect.

BUT
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Silence is golden.

BUT
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

You're never too old to learn.

BUT
You can't teach an old dog new tricks

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

BUT
One man's food
is another man's poison.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

BUT
Out of sight, out of mind.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

BUT
Many hands make light work.

Hold fast to the words of your ancestors.

BUT
Wise men make proverbs and fools repeat them.

Were You Being Offensive?

Answers According to the Vedic Version:
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Question: Were You Being Offensive?

Please forgive me for sounding petty, but I find it offensive that you would refer to Los Angeles as hellish. Is there not at least one ISKCON temple there? Aren't there several ISKCON devotees living in that area. Doesn't Lord Krishna say and Srila Prabhupada say that if one or more devotees are in an area that Lord Krishna is there too?

If that is true, then how could you call it hellish?

Your servant

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Answer: I Presented Krishna's Version of Reality

According to Lord Sri Krishna's statement in the Bhagavad-gita every place in this material existence is certainly a hell. So there was nothing wrong for me to describe Los Angeles as a hell. And by observation also we can see that so much pollution and so much crime does indeed make a place hellish.

Of course it is also true that wherever Lord Krishna's temple is present that place becomes the spiritual world. But this is only true for those people who take advantage of the temple. For those who do not that place remains for them a hell. At the present time this means 99.999% of the population is living in a hellish condition without taking advantage of the sublime process of Krishna consciousness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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Why they are named so?

This would certainly make you king Solomon.

Yahoo!

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is
barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos ie.. it stands for Y et Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

Xerox

The Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying.

Sun Microsystems

Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

Sony

From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SAP

"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Application s/Projects' group of
IBM.

Red Hat

Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

Oracle

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The code name for the project was called Oracle
(the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such).

Motorola

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.


Microsoft

It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed
later on.

Lotus

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from the lotus position or 'padmasana.' Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi.

Intel

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for
an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Hewlett-Packard

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan
for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming
language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casings.

Google

The name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word
for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to
an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google

Cisco

The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco . The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized
Golden Gate Bridge .

Apple Computers

Favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened his employees to suggest a name
forhis company by 5 o'clock .as noone came forward with a name & clock ticks 5, he was having apple in his hand & hence he named it as APPLE


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Apache

It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server - thus,
the name Apache.

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Wasn't that informative?

MOUSE TRAP STORY

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. What food might this contain? The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning:
There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said,
"Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. " "I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The pig sympathized, but said, I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray.
"Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of
a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was
caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose
tail the trap had caught.
The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well; she died.

So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them. The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So,the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't
concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT AND LET THEM KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE.

REMEMBER,,,,
EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN
TOGETHER FOR A REASON.