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| The Valkyries By Paulo Coelho for free! | |
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| The first best-selling author Paulo Coelho is distributing for free his works on his blog: http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com The full edition of The Valkyries is online for free till the 10th of May. On the next months, Paulo is going to have full editions online of all his titles published in English.
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| 21:21 | 15/Apr/2008 |
| The Valkyries By Paulo Coelho for free! | |
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| The first best-selling author Paulo Coelho is distributing for free his works on his blog: http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com The full edition of The Valkyries is online for free till the 10th of May. On the next months, Paulo is going to have full editions online of all his titles published in English.
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| 19:54 | 12/Mar/2008 |
| The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho is OnLine... | |
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| As I read from Paulo Coelho's blog http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com , now the full edition of The Pilgrimage is online for free till the 10th of April. On the next months, Paulo is going to have full editions online of all his titles published in English. Ohh this is a great news!
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| 12:57 | 13/Feb/2008 |
| Paulo Coelho turns tables on Harper Coll... | |
| The best-selling author Paulo Coelho has managed to turn tables on his publishing house Harper Collins. Indeed, the New York Times released an article (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/business/media/11har per.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin) saying how Harper Collinsis enabling the online reading of Coelho"s book The Witch of Portobelloin its w...
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| 11:53 | 12/Feb/2008 |
| Heaven and hell | |
| A violent samurai warrior with a reputation for provoking fights for noreason arrived at the gates of a Zen monastery and asked to speak tothe master. Without hesitating, Ryokan went to meet him. ‘Theysay that intelligence is more powerful than brute force,’ said thesamurai. ‘Can you explain to me what heaven and hell are?’ Ryokan said nothing. ‘Yo...
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| 12:54 | 7/Feb/2008 |
| Issue nº165 : Learning from flowers | |
| Why go on fighting Reader Gerson Luiz tells the story of a rose that longed for the company of the bees, but none would come to her. Even so, the flower was still capable of dreaming. When she felt all alone, she would imagine a garden filled with bees that came to kiss her. And so she managed to resist until the next day, when she opened her petal...
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| 19:18 | 4/Feb/2008 |
| Author Paulo Coelho's profitable Net obs... | |
| NEW YORK (Fortune) -- In 1999, best-selling author Paulo Coelho, whowrote "The Alchemist," was failing in Russia. That year he sold onlyabout 1,000 books, and his Russian publisher dropped him. But after hefound another, Coelho took a radical step. On his own Web site,launched in 1996, he posted a digital Russian copy of "The Alchemist."Withno addi...
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| 09:28 | 30/Jan/2008 |
| Forgiving in the same spirit | |
| Rabbi Nahum of Chernobyl was the object of constant insults from a shopkeeper. One day, the man’s business began to go downhill. ‘It must be the rabbi, asking for vengeance from God,’ he thought. And he went to apologise to the rabbi. ‘I forgive you in the same spirit in which you forgive me,’ replied the rabbi. Yet the man continued to lose ...
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| 15:37 | 28/Jan/2008 |
| The moving monument | |
| I have visited many monuments in this world that try to immortalize thecities that erect them in prominent places. Imposing men whose nameshave already been forgotten but who still pose mounted on theirbeautiful horses. Women who hold crowns or swords to the sky, symbolsof victories that no longer even appear in school books. Solitary,nameless chil...
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| hari kumar | 13:29 | 4/Apr/2008 |
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| My Father |
| I was away from iland for sometime now because of the death of my father- who passed away in the night of 12-13 March. As I mentioned before, he was detected with aneurysm- bulging of brain arteries at two points. Doctors advised not to undergo surgery or coiling (the methods of treatment) because of his age( he was 74.) But then I never knew the e...
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| ksanjay | 19:52 | 30/Mar/2008 |
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| The Alchemist |
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| It is the third time I went through ‘THE ALCHEMIST’ written by Paulo Coelho.It is one of the best novels I have gone through so far.Everytime I read this modern classic and I come across hundred of marvellous quotable lines.Here are few I would like to quote for them who love to read something unique and meaningful.* Everyone on earth has a treasur...
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| Amit Dasgupta | 17:19 | 18/Feb/2008 |
| Friends: (31)
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| Miracles of Technology |
| All through the year we use so much technology to do our everyday work that we sometimes don’t stop to think of the cool gizmos that we use to make our liveable. There are more an more people who are being converted to technological geeks than we would like…but its for sure that technology is here to stay. With every passing year the trends of tech...
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| Robin Jack | 10:34 | 28/Feb/2008 |
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| Reiki |
| Friends, Bhaiyyon aur Behanonm, I am planning to attend Reiki Healing class. Can anyone knowledgeable about this give me the pros and cons,if any, if you are aware of this?...
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| NITIN KUMAR | 14:57 | 19/Jan/2008 |
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| ME BACKkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk |
| Hi friends, I have shifted my blog to http://worstdevil.blogspot.com/ Do visit the blog and provide your valuable comment Nitin
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| surya s | 00:35 | 26/Mar/2008 |
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| Love birds |
| There was a man at the town square in Copenhagen, who was covered with pigeons.I walked up to him, took a snap; took two more.I smiled at him.He gazed at me without welcome or hostility, like I was not really there. His pigeons and seagulls were around him, on him, over him.How long have you been feeding them?For a while.Seems like they recognize y...
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| Kiran Raivad... | 10:58 | 26/Dec/2007 |
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| STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART...FOR THE HEART. (Posting it as it may be useful/kr) A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya (Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees . The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone. Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart? Ans:1. Diet - Less ...
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| Jayalakshmi ... | 08:08 | 14/Apr/2008 |
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| Shashi Tharoor's Fascination |
| When Shashi Tharoor runs out of ideas, he gets down to writer bashing. I don’t read his column regularly, but on two occasions, I have seen him get rather critical of a couple of the finest writers the world has known.Yesterday’s (April 13) Hindu Sunday Magazine carried a column by Tharoor, in which he has denounced the importance given to Rudyard ...
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| Think Tank | 08:50 | 15/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (505)
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| Rules Broken! |
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| SocietyAnd now… Rahul on Feminism? As there is a lifecycle of everything, there is also a lifecycle of a blogger. Hence most of us go through very parallel thoughts at times, and write on similar issues. I have never felt any dearth of issues to write on, as you would have guessed till now. But one trend I have avoided so far – to write on feminis...
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| Sabarinath Nair | 21:23 | 10/Apr/2008 |
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| Wedding Sari blues |
| "There are only four types of saris. The cream ones, the blue ones, the green ones, and the maroon ones." said my friend Sethu, circa 2002. I'm in total agreement with him. I am still clueless when my mom gets confused over buying one from two saris, both of which look the same to me!With the wedding preparations getting into the groove, I am being...
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| Lakshmi | 19:06 | 12/Apr/2008 |
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| Just one look at my last post made me realise something. That i no longer attach any importance to what was once considered important.. very important. Something over which every student might have been scolded atleast once. Hate it or love it, no matter how we felt, we had to master it. Some of us did succeed and some did not. But no longer matte...
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| V T | 11:29 | 10/Apr/2008 |
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| (Mis)Understanding Lyrics |
| The other day someone asked me, “Which is your favorite song?” Wow! That question made me feel real nostalgic and all. I mean, it is the kind of stuff teenyboppers ask to each other. I said, “my favorite song is – Baapchik baapchik bumbo, chiki chiki chiki chiki baa...’” and thought my reply sounded cool as hell. Actually I think this thing about ...
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| amishi bharty | 09:19 | 27/Dec/2007 |
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| finally.. m back!!! |
| So finally m back... ages since i wrote my last blog. Recently i ran into one of my best friends.. just like other days.. v had our usual round of gossip After sometime, the conversation took a serious turn and she asked me.. "amishi, what is the most important thing in a relationship?". I thought for a while and i said, "feelings?!". She replied, ...
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| shivani narula | 13:47 | 8/Apr/2008 |
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| TRUST.... |
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| Sometimes putting too much of blind faith in someone once we thought understand us back fires!And nothing hurts more than that once that feeling comes that whom you trusted blindly shows discontent , mistrust suddenly wrapped in the streaks of paranoia.Unknowingly and unintentionally things grow bitter or do we allow them to? Again Does it really ...
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| Jolly Jacob | 15:41 | 11/Apr/2008 |
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| Tia's poem |
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| I return to iLand simply because I had to post this one (so proud am I :))Among all the people who called / wrote and wished me on my birthday, I also got a call from my brother who told me that his 8 year-old daughter has started writing poetry and that she had wriiten one that blew his mind. He sent it to me and, well, it blew me away too.So, wit...
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| amr snh | 20:18 | 3/Apr/2008 |
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| Is it possible ? |
| Hi Friends,There are couple of Utopian ideas that keep taking twists and turns in my mind so very oftenI must admit these may sound totally outlandish or plain silly, specially to those of you with special bent of mind towards all things ScientificFirst of these is :- Is it possible for man to develop some sort of wings, of course mechanically a...
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| Farag Afify | 11:28 | 17/Feb/2008 |
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| Hoax-Slayer |
| Friend to FriendSubject: FOUR THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DOVery, very useful info.4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DOThere are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that y...
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