The memory ...

That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved one is just poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed so you'd be spared your pain.

Henry Ducard!

طرح مبارزه با بد حجابی در روسیه

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When the stupid question trick didn't work ...

When it is just 5 minutes left and the professor is about to start a new topic, somebody should make a sacrifice, ruin his reputation and do the stupid question trick because otherwise you have to sit there for another 15 minutes before the professor realizes that he has gone 10 minutes overtime.
How does it work? ... Simple, just make a complete fool of yourself and ask a very stupid question. The professor will be busy answering your question for the remaining time of the class.
But when the trick doesn't work, it really hurts ...

The Namesake

Everything that happens since that day has been a gift.

Einstein

The Orthodox Jewish leader in New York, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, sent a very direct telegraph to Einstein: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer Paid. 50 words."
Einstein used only about half his allotted number of words:

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

For more on this subject refer to TIME.com

تکیه بر تقوی و دانش در طریقت کافریست
راهرو گر صد هنر دارد توکّل بایدش

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The Caterpillar Effect

These days walking around campus is not as easy as it used to be. You have to watch out not to step over the caterpillars and at the same time you have to look up so that they don't end up in your mouth or eyes.
Wondering why I am worried about stepping over them? In my opinion, the way we look at the caterpillars is the same way God looks at us. All these little creatures like to do is to climb up something, as we like to climb up in the course of our life.
I am not stepping over them, so that the next time God is passing by to see how is everything here down on the earth, he doesn't step over me. I have had enough already!