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Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.

- Warren Buffet

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Fact: 99% people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

- Indira Gandhi

Fact: India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.

- Malcolm Gladwell

Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction.

- Bhagavad Geeta

Fact: We have already forgotten 40% of what happened to us yesterday.

Fact: A man once wore 70 items of clothing in a Chinese airport to avoid the bagging charge.

A man is great by deed, not by birth.

- Chanakya

Fact: A person who is strongly attracted to someone’s intelligence is called a “sapiosexual”.

Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction

- Narender Modi

Fact: Emotional pain lasts for 10 to 20 minutes, anything longer is actually self-inflicted by over thinking, making things worse.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. �Work, continuous work, and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

- Steve Jobs

Fact: South Korea banned children under 16 from playing online games between midnight and 6AM under a so-called "Cinderella Law".

Dreams are fuel of life, bigger the dreams, bigger is the life.

- Nadeem Kazi

Fact: Hearing your name when no one is actually calling you is a sign of a healthy mind.

It is not joy that makes us grateful. It is gratitude that makes us joyful.

- David Steindl-Rast

Fact: Kissing is more hygienic and healthier than shaking hands.

Health is the greatest gift, Contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

- Gautama Buddha

Fact: Music has been proven to effectively lower a person's stress hormones.

Fact: Every time you recall a memory or have a new thought, you create a new connection in your brain.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

- Richard Bach

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Fact: New Year's Day is the oldest celebrated holiday.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Fact: Forty-five percent of Americans make New Year's resolutions.

Winning doesn't come cheaply, you have to pay a big prize.

- Jeev Milkha Singh

Fact: The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.

Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential.

- Liane Cardes

Fact: Camels have three eyelids.

Fact: In a year, the average person walks four miles making his or her bed.

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

- Dhirubhai Ambani

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Fact: The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.

The dreams I chased took me on a journey, a journey more rewarding than the goals

- Shah Rukh Khan

Fact: A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

- Max De Pree

Fact: The largest fish is the whale shark - it can be over 50 feet long and weigh two tons.

Fact: A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

- Kalpana Chawla

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Fact: Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.

- Aravind Adiga

Fact: A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

- Unknown

Fact: 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Fact: Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

- Frank Tyger

Fact: Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros). Google was named after it.

Fact: August has the highest percentage of births.

You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes you're not, but it's the average that counts.

- Satya Nadella

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

- Willie Mays

Fact: The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.

- Shiv Khera

Fact: You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than at sea level.

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

- Vince Lombardi

Fact: You burn about 20 calories per hour chewing gum.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Fact: A snail breathes through its foot.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

- William James

Fact: A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Fact: You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

Fact: Frowning burns more calories than smiling.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.

- William M. Bulger

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Fact: Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

- Arthur Ashe

Fact: A crocodile cannot move its tongue.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

- Robert Collier

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

- Maya Angelou

Fact: The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year.

Fact: A bee has five eyelids.

Fact: The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

- Levi Strauss

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

- Sparky Anderson

Fact: A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour.

Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.

- Anonymous

Fact: Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

Fact: Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything.

- John Wooden

Fact: Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.

Fact: You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

- Andy Warhol

Fact: A kangaroo can jump 30 feet.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

- J. Petit Senn

Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves. Quitters take bad breaks & use them as reasons to give up.

- Nancy Lopez

Fact: Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every 10 hours.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

- William Shakespeare

Fact: A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

- Muhammad Ali

Fact: Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.

You can never do a kindness to soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fact: The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N.

Fact: At birth, a Dalmation is always pure white.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

- Andrew Carnegie

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

- Harry S. Truman

Fact: The longest one syllable word is "screeched."

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot & hang on.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fact: Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

Fact: Dolphins can jump up to 20 feet in the air.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

- Jane Fonda

Fact: If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

- Lucille Ball

Fact: A human brain weighs about three pounds.

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

- Nido Qubein

Fact: It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

- John Wooden

Fact: A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.

Worry often gives a small thing a great shadow.

- Swedish Proverb

Fact: Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.

Fact: You'd have to play ping-pong for about 12 hours to lose one pound.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

- Albert Einstein

If you can see the positive sides of everything, you'll be able to live a much richer life than others.

- Celestine Chua

Be the type of person you want to meet.

- Anonymous

Fact: Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.

I've seen God. He bats at no. 4 for India in tests.

- Mathew Hayden on Sachin Tendulkar

Fact: The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the first ever World Cup that was held outside England.

Dravid could play attacking cricket like me but I could never play like him

- Chris Gayle

Fact: Australia is the only team which has won 4 Cricket World Cups in which three wins came is a row - 1997, 2003 and 2007.

I would go to war with Dhoni by my side

- Gary Kirsten

Fact: Shahid Afridi of Pakistan has a unique record of taking four wickets or more in a match in four World Cups.

On the off-side, first there is God, then Sourav Ganguly

- Rahul Dravid

Fact: The 1992 Cricket World Cup was the first ever World Cup, where white balls were used and Day-Night games were played with colour clothings.

After doing 5 selfies with people this morning before 8am on my morning walk I've come to the conclusion that the autograph is dead!

- Shane Warne

Fact: Due to racial policy in South Africa, they could participate in the Cricket World Cup only in its 5th edition in 1992.

Fact: Sri Lanka became the first host nation to win a Cricket World Cup in 1996. The 1996 Cricket World Cup was co-hosted by Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan.

They'd win the first four Tests and we'd try to nick one at the end when they were all drunk.

- Nasser Hussain on the Ashes

As I ran up to bowl, Bradman seemed to know where the ball was going to pitch, what stroke he was going to play and how many runs he was going to score.

- Jim Laker

Fact: ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 is one of the world's largest international sports tournaments with 14 competing teams and more than 400 accredited players and officials.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

- Mark Levy

Fact: Kumar Sangakkara holds the record of maximum stumpings in cricket world cup, i.e., 10 dismissals in 30 matches.

Fact: This is the second time Australia and New Zealand have come together to co-host ICC cricket world cup; the first was in 1992.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

- Tom Landry

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

- Andre Agassi

Fact: The 1996 cricket world cup, which was won by Sri Lanka, witnessed two walkovers due to safety concerns. Interestingly both the matches were scheduled to be played in and against Sri Lanka, and Sri Lanka was declared winner in both.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better us best.

- Tim Duncan

Fact: Despite hosting the cricket world cup four times and reaching the finals thrice, Englad has never won the title till date.

99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

- George W. Carver

Fact: DRS (Decision Review System) will be used during all the 49 mathes in ICC cricket world cup 2015.

Everyday do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.

- Doug Firebaugh

Fact: Shahid Afridi used Sachin Tendulkar's bat to hit the fastest ever ODI century.

Fact: Chris Gayle is the only batsman to hit a six off the first ball of a Test match.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

Fact: Abbas Ali Baig was the first Indian cricketer to be kissed during a Test match.

Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.

- Howard Schultz

Fact: Vinod Kambli's Test match average is better than that of his childhood friend Sachin Tendulkar.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

- Albert Einstein

Fact: ML Jaisimha and Ravi Shastri are the only Indians to bat on all five days of a Test match.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

- Paulo Coelho

Fact: India is the only country to win the 60-Over, 50-Over and 20-Over World Cup.