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B X not all items of ancient past is out of date. Physical things yes, but truth and wisdom are eternal hence Socrates, Albert Einstein, Hippocrates are still being quoted and applied.

You just make sweeping statements about Peter Drucker being out of date, just name a few of the quotes and share with me why they are not applicable today? Show me your reasons!

Let me show you another example that truth about real science is eternal. why don't you go read this "ancient" book by Magnus Pyke ( (29 December 1908 – 19 October 1992) " Food and Society" 1968 publication.? Point out to me the fault and errors in his nutrition advice in light of your modern understanding about health and nutrition.?

Following Magnus Pyke's wisdom in food science, has served me well, the last 50 years-

I am completely free from the lies and tyranny of modern sickness theology about health. At my age of 25 years closer to 100- I am free from diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease,

Your admiration for modern propaganda about all things new is a deception, may be except for computer or mobile phone.

You know something old globalists like John D Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, George Soros all of these depend on naturapathic medicines for health, but avoided modern petroleum drugs 100% ?

In John Rockefeller biography he gave millions for drug research to promote the use of drugs but he himself depended on a homeopathic physician Dr B H Biggar for his illness. ( The Rockefeller, an

American Dynasty by Peter Collier & David Horowitz page 60) The modern so called health care business is in reality a sickness industry to depopulate the masses.

Ancient quotations like some of these are gem of wisdom the MSM keep from the masses.

“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”Bertrand Russell (18 May1872-2 Feb 1970)

"It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better." ~

Friedrich August von Hayek (8 May 1899 - 23 March 1992

“Sit down before fact as a child,

Be prepared to give up every pre-conceived notion.

Follow humbly where nature leads ,or you will learn nothing.”

Thomas Huxley (4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895)

"Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious." ~ Isidor Isaac Rabi (July 29, 1898 - January 11, 1988)

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything." ~ Robert Genn (15 May 1936-27 May 2014)

"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual." ~ Socrates

"There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility." ~ Christopher McDowell

Finally

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”

― Alvin Toffler (4 Oct 1928- 27 June 2016)

"It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible." ~ John Dewey (October 20, 1859- June 1, 1952)

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As I suspected by your taste, you're an antique yourself...

Gosh! You buy ancient books because they are ancient or their antiquity can be exchanged for cash?

Or because they are super cheap by the ton?

Or because you place great faith in texts, no trust in critiques, other viewpoints?

Surely it must hurt the tauhu in your skull wobbling around carrying so many quotes in your head!

Ancient books or any book contain no value unless you have the capacity to judge and test them.

About "science", maybe you haven't come across any book that proves science is often not "scientific".

Anyway, hows about sharing some original quotes of yer very own?

Those bunches of other doods' gems we can find in books, internet, etc, all just like you do. You are not the only genius who can flip pages or whack a keyboard, most of us can too, I kid thee not!

So, Einstein, do yer own thing, have more faith in yourself, you don't walk around with other people's crutches, do you? Or fcuk with other people's dcik, do you?

Do you collect those ancient Magnus Pyke videos too? What about Michio Kaku, he's more recent than Pyke, and more interesting not being a circus act.

As for, "my age of 25 years closer to 100- I am free from diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease,", I often hear such from old codgers and they die the next day... Your statement is utterly meaningless, you're just a hypochondriac "trendy New Age" freak totally afraid of dying and death, and wish you've cheated the casket dealer.

I bid thee farewell now, from my scientific experience, you may be free of those ailments you mentioned, I think you may already have terminal brain cancer, get yourself checked thoroughly please, don't wait more than two hours for that!

Kicking the bucket is not really a bad thing and being dead at 100 is neither a rule nor milestone. What if you can reach 120 and your living death is all but pain and misery?

Being unoriginal, banal, boring quote-dispenser is not any life for me, it's not living your own life, thanks.

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As for "Hippocrates are still being quoted and applied.", these days they are enticing the likes of you with euthanasia.

Btw, Einstein, like you, did no original research. He stole other people's work, probably his quotes too. I thought you would have read of that, this fact was known even in ancient time.

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Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks!

"The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change." ~ Jesse Robredo

"Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated." ~ Andy Hargreaves

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." ~ Peter Drucker

Leadership either you have it or not at all, you can't pretend to have it, in time of crisis.

"Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership." ~ Peter Drucker

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic." ~ Peter Drucker

"Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence." ~ Peter Drucker

"In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle." ~ Peter Drucker

"The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future." ~ Friedrich August von Hayek

In the multitude of words, there is bound to be transgression, Anwar will do well to remember these words of wisdom, and stop to reflect.

"The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work." ~ Peter Drucker Even more a head of a nation!

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes." ~ Peter Drucker.

Orator skill is just for making first impression, in the final count, result matters most!

"The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask." ~ Peter Drucker

Anwar forgot to ask this very important question when he proclaimed a ban on Israel goods and services in Malaysia.

How will this government ban adversely affect the country's trade and economy?

What benefits do Malaysia get by the politics of war for small nation like us?

What tangible and concrete profits for the whole country when the Muslim world praise him for such bold move? A few moment of temporary high, to the detrimental suffering of the whole population in business? Is the transient emotional reward of a fleeting moment for himself worth the consequential loss?

Is the office of the prime minister an opportunity to glorify himself or the responsibility to solve the country's long term accumulated crisis in economy, education, bloated government administration,

humongous national debt, corruption just to name a few crisis facing us now?

Anwar is not an expert in economy, neither a specialist in international relationship, or a health crisis management guru, he needs many competent advisers from all fields, who will he chose to help him make the wise decision, a group of his buddies or real experts?

"Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization." ~ Peter Drucker

A leader is supposed to be a literate. But is he one?

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”

― Alvin Toffler (4 Oct 1928- 27 June 2016)

Does Anwar aware of the danger of surrounded by a group of "yes" men to be his advisors? has he learn anything about the disastrous economic truth of Sri Lanka crisis? Is he ignorant of the consequences of cronyism , nepotism, oligarchy and racism?

Is he truly an educated leader?

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." ~ Carl Rogers

"The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everything else will become obsolete over time." ~ Peter Drucker

"It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest." ~ Charles Darwin

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust

After just crossing the one year honeymoon period as a PMX, it is time for Anwar to ask himself what he wants the nation to remember him by after he is gone?

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Uncle, have you updated your reading list? Uncles Drucker, Hayek, Toffler, Darwin, etc are all from the rather ancient past, their thinking have been challenged, often trashed, become gospel or even talking point no more.

Really, you can't have a healthy life if for you it means being a collector of orphaned quotes.

Hows about coming up with your very own original quotes from experience of your very own, leave those of others to be excavated from ancient books and to be reburied in the graveyard of someone else's head?

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Let's see how long you can live on modern invention? Go read this old book on

" population control" by Jim Marrs! remember also another old book " Tragedy and Hope" by

by Dr Carroll Quigley a 1966 publication!

You have been engineered to be sick and die by installment eventually, but you can delay this casualty and avoid being dead expensively by learning from the past.

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Aiyaah! Why are you so paranoid one? You are a leading dimwit from Bolehland's collection of kiasi, forever senselessly terrified of illness, dying, and death.

For the subject of "keling", your contribution is a whore loads of other people's quotes which form the very unoriginal you.

The you veer off into a display of neurotic ramble of obsessions about psychotic fears about health and life.

You seem rather fcuked-up, your mind doesn't work normally, subject is on "keeling", somehow you think you should hijack topic and take it to the keeling-nik! Wtf is wrong with you, eh?

Just cross the road carefully and keep your mind free from kiasi neurotic paranoia. There's not much point living a life of psychotic fears and obsess with other people's "gems", no use having what you boast as a healthy corpse but operate a cabbage of a head.

Eat organic, Grandad, don't run off with perhaps a vegetarian diet into veganism - there are a lot of books about that too, many free or cheap. But don't lecture about those subjects, just grab your queue ticket for the keeling-nik, ask for the shrink to treat yer psychiatric case and a half, please.

Beam me up!

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"Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it."

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Aaah, that's Goleman of "emotional intelligence", fashionable at one time...

Calm down, Grandad, I don't think anyone is out to "dominate" you. Life's not about "winning" or "control". And, sorry, you ain't worth exacting anything upon, no one can be kiasu about a kiasi. There's no "conflict" here, don't be so paranoid, learn to relax.

So keep a close tab on your paranoia and fear of "losing". You hide behind other people's quotes so you're always "safe".

Meanwhile, when you've found your testicles, even just one, do try critical thinking, venture out and look at other views, critiques, opposing opinions. Most of all, banish the fear of those, and try open your mind instead of clinging on to quotes like dear life, fearing and feeling insecure the floor may be sawn off from under your shaky legs.

As you've used Goleman to shield your fragile self and lack of "emotional intelligence" with, you should read all his works, and, yes, his critics. Tons of quotes out of contexts, and you are still incapable of standing your ground - yourself!

Meanwhile, you are pontificating and sermonising with other people's "emotional intelligence", wtf, you silly old fart! Can you not fcuk with other people's dciks?!

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It's amusing - and dangerous coming from a PM even if he's got no class and no ability.

Worse still, it's the pot calling the kettle black. Anwar, if you cast a casual glance, appears with little doubt, a "blackie". Not that I attach much importance to skin colour so long as the black cat can catch mice. But Anwar has yet to show any ability after a lifetime being a political operator, a macaivillain at that in the very negative meaning. And I call a spade a spade.

I always had the belief he's actually a Tamil.

Here we have a big talker, and an excessive talker, and he can't control his motor mouth.

I can only suspect he deliberately used the k word to appeal to an appropriate species of Malaysian as he cannot win over them.

Whether he can or not win over that species the "great orator" is on the way out, he shouldn't bother make that "slip".

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He shud stop quoting the Quran & interpreting it as he is hardly qualified. Just as he is not qualified to be Minister of Finance. Just see what kind of mess the economy is in. Expect more problems if he continues to blabber.

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Didnt know keling was deragoratory. Hopefully thamby and macha is not. Pmx is doing this on purpose to divert attention from many other issues.

However, the one that is upsettimg the rural majority malay vote banks are anwar uttering the word 'bible' last week in his assembly speech to civil servants in putrajaya.

He claimed that the al kahfi verses on the seven youths that slept for 300 yrs was during the time of christianity and was stated in the bible to avoid being persecuted by emperor decius in 250 ad.This shocked the nation especially malay civil servants.

A popular local muslim scholar accused pmx of oppressing rightly guided muslim scholars these days and deviate teachings and confuse believers.

It is likely that pmx want to please the sabah sarawakian and dap christians given that it is christmas seasons. Ho ho ho..

🌲🤶🎅🎄🎉🎁

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Anwar is the "G*d's gift to Malaysia" you won't want to unwrap for Xmas, Ho Ho Ho..!

The "Great Orator" (big talker) claimed he read all the "great books) when he was in prison. Naturally, by the time he left prison he became a great scholar. On top of being Gandhi, Mandela, Rizal, and probably Ron Hubbard, and a pilot from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pastafarianism).

Oratorah Anwar has always fancied himself as some kind of a religious mystic, a "messenger", and probably even messiah - you can tell by the way he messes up everything and everywhere.

So long as he doesn't overdo the Great Pretender, Anwar's fun as he morphs into anything and everything for everyone and anyone that suits his opportunistic bent. He's even became holy witness to those "kelings" who want to be converted to Islam.

The noisy dramatist and kampong polymath so overwhelmingly moves me to tears that every time I hear his holy name, I reach out for the Kelingnex!

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U r funny, sarcastic classy and clever🤣..

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Even when compared with Mullah Oratorah Anwar?

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