Why are people so happy about other people’s mistakes and defeats? Especially about those of famous people.
I think this is a subconscious excuse for their own weaknesses.
It’s nice to think “I’m not perfect, but who is ideal? Look, even the great ones make slips! Why would I be held accountable?”
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Among my former colleagues, government officials, there are many people who perform their duties conscientiously. In their service they think only about the public interests. I call them “state-minded people”. I treasure the friendship and respect of such people.
Also, there are other officials who see civil service as a source of …
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My friend’s son studies at one of the Czech universities.
Recently she went to visit him. She decided to lavish her son’s classmates, mostly Czechs, with Kazakh national dishes, and served a dinner in the dormitory. Before the feast, the son suddenly said to his mother: …
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Where’s the justice? – thought the peasant with one cow, looking at a neighbor with five cows.
Where’s the justice? – said the third peasant, who did not have a single cow, and took the cow from the first peasant.…
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Today, many well-off people have assistants at their homes: housekeepers, nannies, personal drivers, security guards, etc.
Relationships that develop between employers and employees can be different.
Some newly-made rich people think of themselves as feudal lords (bais) and treat their employees as serfs: arrogantly, disparagingly, as third-rate people.…
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I have some acquaintances from the province. They have their own small business and they do not live in poverty. Recently, their child needed a treatment in the republican clinic. Patients with such a disease are included in the so-called quota, which means it is possible to receive free treatment at the expense of the …
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I divide all waiters conditionally into 4 types: “gentlemen”, “servants”, “robots” and “friends.”
“Gentlemen” behave arrogantly, they talk unwillingly, through their teeth, have an impenetrable face. In the past during the Soviet Union, with the supremacy of sellers over consumers, majority of the waiters was like that. Now they are extremely rare, except in …
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Genocide is an act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, any national, ethnic, racial, religious or other historically formed cultural and ethnic group.
I believe that at the beginning of the last century, against the Kazakhs and Ukrainians, the leadership of the Soviet Union did not use genocide. I did not see a single document that …
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Serik and Berik were best friends since the student’s bench. Together they studied at the university, together they started business, together they earned their first money in simple “buy-sell” operations, got rich, created their families.
But at some point the turnover of their company began to fall, and, in the end, the stores had to be closed and sold. But …
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There are different types of wives. I would mention out the following 10 types of wives in their relationship with their husbands.
1. Wife-companion.
This is a wife who is engaged in one thing with her husband, shares his views and actions. In difficult times she can even replace her husband in his post.
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