Once, a little girl lived in a small, simple house on a hill. As she grew up playing in her small garden, she could see, over the garden fence and across the…
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Building bridges
Once upon a time, two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, labour and…
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Hasty to judge
A man and his daughter were playing in the park. The little girl spotted an apple vendor and asked her father to buy her an apple. The man didn’t have much…
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Giving & receiving
There was a Korean firm, which was exporting fabric to an Indonesian firm at the rate of 17 cents per yard. All of a sudden, due to certain policy initiatives of the…
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Kindness pays!
One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one dime left, and he was hungry. He decided…
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From Guru Nanak’s life
Once Guru Nanak was on a visit to Banaras with his disciples. As the night approached, he reached a village and decided to spend the night there. The people of the village…
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The emperor’s successor
Once there was an emperor in the Far East who was growing old and knew it was time to choose his successor. Instead of choosing one of his assistants or one of…
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Time to think
Henry Ford hired an efficiency expert to go through his plant. He said, “Find the non-productive people. Tell me who they are, and I will fire them!” The expert made the rounds…
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The trouble tree
The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tyre made him lose an hour of work, his…
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Why mothers cry …
“Why are you crying?” a little boy asked his mom. “Because I’m a mother,” she told him. “I don’t understand,” he said. She just hugged him and said, “You never will!” Later,…