"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."Medgar Evers
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April Fool's Day
April Fool’s Day originates from Germany. It is believed to be the brain child of Gabriel Hoffman who lived in Damstadt during the 1860’s. The day is celebrated in many countries with the execution of elaborate practical jokes on unsuspecting victims. ...
Pause o'Menses
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Top 10 ways to introduce a little excitement into your workplace
10. Page yourself over the intercom. (Don't disguise your voice.) 9. Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Then wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is a different gender ...
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ANECDOTES OF THE LATE O. S. ARI
“ ...Ari’s voice, full of wit, filled the room... ”
(Mustafa Dogrusoz in ’Kibris’ -5 February 1999)
" ...He always wore a smile... "
(Harid Fedai in 'Halkin Sesi' -27 December 1992)
(In his newspaper columns [mostly between 1968-1992 in Cypriot ‘Halkin Sesi’ -also ‘Birlik’ etc.] often by a little story or joke did the hailed teacher-thinker-poet the late Orhan Seyfi Ari [1918- 1992] made or highlighted his points ~so also in his lectures, debates, discussions, teaching his school pupils. These simply put anecdotes are hoped briefly and miscellaneously to familiarise with his wit and a few of the less involved of the very many views he was also popular for…)
DIPLOMATIC COMMUNIQES, he thought, were rather like broadcasting live on the radio a match between two boxers called Abdi and Bandinelli, and announcing the winner as Abdinelli…
‘NEVER TOO LATE to change one’s mind or to make a start’ was not of more use to one, sometimes, or to a nation, than it would be to the driver of a car rolling down a cliff to then decide to drive carefully…
IRRELEVANCY was a natural and common refuge of man ~”You have gone bald!” he joked with a friend who he had not seen for a long time –his friend looked at him, then responded, “Ha..! As if your son’s got more hair than I..!”
THE TROUBLES OF THE WORLD had much to do with this, that some with breathing
difficulties had become deep sea divers…
IGNORANT WE ALL ARE of many things, he thought –some of us, even of our ignorance…
PERSEVERANCE it was an example of, the little delicate plant that shots and grows through the concrete of the pavement …
WHINING “O-oh!..” his friend explained, “I missed my train.. oh, I was twenty minutes late.. I am so sorry…” He replied: “Don’t be –you would have missed it also if you were only twenty seconds late..!”
EVOLUTION.. “we were apes”… Now..?! Were we not, now, ‘man’!?..
JUSTIFICATIONS of some reminded him of someone in his early teens to whom he had given leaflets, booklets, on how harmful smoking was –some months later the teenager came to him waving a newspaper which mentioned that an elderly person was a smoker…
RELATIONSHIPS had much to do with knowing that one could not stand before a mirror and make faces and expect to see a smiling image...
STRENGTH did not necessarily suffice ~”I am a wrestler!” threatened one –the other laughed: “But.. I am a runner...”
GOD “Perhaps does not exist;” he said “but, Sir, what if He does..!?”
POPULARITY it helped to wear a smile –the vinegar merchant who smiled had more customers than the honey merchant who did not…
About the Author
Author's research unfortunately could not include all of the articles of the late thinker -his anecdotes above are not from those articles themselves
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