Beautiful indeed !!!:Inspirational Stories and real life Incidences.

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From a FWD. E-mail:

A lady in a faded grey dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun suit walked in timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer office.
The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Harvard.
'We want to see the President,' the man said softly. 'He'll be busy all day,' the secretary snapped. 'We'll wait,' the lady replied.
For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away.
They didn't and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president.' Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave,' she said to him.
The President, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.
The lady told him, 'We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus.' The president wasn't touched....
He was shocked. 'Madam,' he said, gruffly, 'we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery.
'Oh, no,' the lady explained quickly. 'We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard.' The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, and then exclaimed, 'A building!'
Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.
'For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.
The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, 'Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don't we just start our own?' Her husband nodded.
The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment.
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the University that bears their name - Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
Most of the time we judge people by their outer appearance, which can be misleading, and in this impression only we tend to treat people badly by thinking they can do nothing for us thus we tend to loose our potential good friends, employees or customers (NM)


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Re: Beautiful indeed !!!

«Reply #1 on: November 20, 2008, 05:34:16 PM »

great true story..


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Re: Beautiful indeed !!!

«Reply #2 on: November 20, 2008, 05:44:19 PM »

BARKARAAR JI PLEASE TELL ME THIS STORY HINDI MEIN .........

PLEASE..............MUSKAN....................... ........


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Re: Beautiful indeed !!!

«Reply #3 on: November 20, 2008, 10:14:08 PM »

arey mere hote hue tum bekarar se itni request kar rahi hom actually iske bhi kuch samaj me nahi aaya iski aadat hain har english post ki sabse pehle tareef karta hain taki sab samjhe ke use english aati hain

Ab story ek dummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm short cut me do maa baap the jinka beta mar chuka tha woh apne bete ki yaad me kuch karna chahte q ke unka beta harvard university me 1 year ke liye ja chuka tha aur woh happy tha lekin unke kapdo ki wajah se president ne unhe itna important nahi diya aur kaha ke aap apne bete ke liye kya karna chahte hain hamari university sade saat million dollar ki hain. to us ladke ki maa ne apne husbund ki taraf dekha aur kaha kya ek university shuru karne ke liye sirf itne paise chahiye aur unhone apne bete ki yaad me apni ek university shuri ki jiska nam hain STANFORD UNIVERSITY jo puri duniya me famous hain


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Re: Beautiful indeed !!!

«Reply #4 on: November 21, 2008, 12:30:37 AM »

sajid sahab... u seem 2 b sum comedian na?... lol. par muhje tho usslee mein english aatee hai, dont judge me! and dont judge bekarar sahab either! isnt dat the story's moral? which u, clearly failed to take upon urself!!! lol!!!!! hahaha ub kya boltay hain aap, sarkaar?


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Re: Beautiful indeed !!!

«Reply #5 on: November 21, 2008, 06:17:35 AM »

buzurgo ne farmaya auro ke ghar me jhaka nahi karti
Jab tak na ho koi mukhatib aapse tab tak kuch kaha nahi karte
Sarkaar kaha hain hame to nibhana apne kehne ko
U bevajah kisi ko apna sabkuch diya nahi karte


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Re: Beautiful indeed !!!

«Reply #6 on: November 21, 2008, 03:02:30 PM »

Quote from: sajid_ghayel on November 21, 2008, 06:17:35 AM

hahaha yahaan deynay leynay kee kon baat kar raha hai? lol... i was just joking!


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Re: Beautiful indeed !!!

«Reply #7 on: November 21, 2008, 03:09:36 PM »

Quote from: anjaan dharkan on November 21, 2008, 03:02:30 PM

hahaha yahaan deynay leynay kee kon baat kar raha hai? lol... i was just joking!

MAIN KAUNSA SERIOUS THA


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