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“The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.” — Art of Quotation

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. Hannah Arendt, book quote from “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

via “The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.” — Art of Quotation

“ The weeks go by, the fourth, the fifth, And normalcy’s become a myth… My energy is out of whack — I want my normal problems back.” — Art of Quotation

Wish The weeks go by, the fourth, the fifth, And normalcy’s become a myth. I want to hug, I want to hold, I want this deadly scourge controlled. I want to walk amidst a crowd. I want to lift this morbid shroud. I sit, sequestered in my home, And yearn to mingle, travel, roam. My […]

via “ The weeks go by, the fourth, the fifth, And normalcy’s become a myth… My energy is out of whack — I want my normal problems back.” — Art of Quotation

“ when I look back at [a] drawing, it carries a couple hours of my life with it. ” — Art of Quotation

Diane Olivier, artist and educator remembers sketching a tomato slice on a trip to France: “When I look at that drawing I remember the temperature, I remember where we were sitting,” she said. “I remember the shadow falling across the picnic table. I remember the people I was talking to. And when I look back […]

via “ when I look back at [a] drawing, it carries a couple hours of my life with it. ” — Art of Quotation

“ the greatest liar hath his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.” — Art of Quotation

“As the vilest writer hath his readers, so the greatest liar hath his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.” Jonathan Swift, writer

via “ the greatest liar hath his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.” — Art of Quotation

“ We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our dead ideas… Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it. “ — Art of Quotation

What is this thing that has happened to us? It’s a virus, yes. In and of itself it holds no moral brief. But it is definitely more than a virus. Some believe it’s God’s way of bringing us to our senses. Others that it’s a Chinese conspiracy to take over the world. Whatever it is, […]

via “ We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our dead ideas… Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it. “ — Art of Quotation

MYSTIC NATURE!, by Debasish majumder

I have a fancy to live high
Above the sky
I resorted to a skyscraper
To satiate my aspiration and desire
I felt extremely contented with my glamour and clamor
I am superior from many out of my endeavor
It is my strong belief
Out of ability and potentiality I am enjoying such wonderful relief!

I am in smug and feeling safe
I am isolated from lot who are just despicable to my jest
Everyday I enjoy my usual design of livelihood
Where electric lift and other gadgets make my comfortable life with sheer gratitude
Hardly I am capable to comprehend the buzzing sound in loud
The nature as well trees and plants in and around me too struggling to reach out
Above the sky is too their aspiration
Whether photosynthesis or in respiration
They continuously work with perspiration
How to express their entity in valor
To make themselves distinct too in nature’s floor!

Unlike Xylem and Phloem in plants construction
We human can travel for our existence in bidirectional
With our distinct capacity to think and rethink
We explore the nature’s floor to prove our superior extinct
But when a natural catastrophe hound us
We could comprehend evidently how insignificant our gravity which we claim in boisterous
We helplessly witness the uprooted trees became the softest victims
Like in man made war where children and women too subjected to few atrocious regimes
Helplessly they are decimated
Their obituary never being scripted
But their dedication will never be suppressed
They are true pedestal on which on which human civilization propelled!

I wonder if there is no existence of trees and plants in nature’s surface
As I recently observed huge quantity of them suddenly became moribund and dead
Being uprooted and devastated by the attack of a cyclone
Engulfing us with a life threatening menace
Alarmingly nature conveying the message of its rage
Tough fighting against nature is our inherent tendency
How could we expect from nature on us its clemency
Subduing nature is still beyond our capacity
Yet we are still engaged in fight within to subdue majority within our fraternity
Not knowing how they too may react to obliterate few’s entity!

We few are perhaps considering only privileged
With audacity and ego we dare to cause huge rampage
Nature will surely take its toll
In due time to obliterate our superiority with hyperbole!