I never understood people who having stood for hours in the queue, pushing their elbows, fainting, hurry to buy a new iPhone on the first day of sales or see Star Wars on the day of the premiere, or to have a cup of coffee in the new Starbucks on the opening day.
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Sometimes a good intention leads to the opposite result.
I remember when I was 5 years old I saw that the postman was bringing the newspapers in our five-story building only to the second floor and putting them there in the mailboxes.
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A woman and her adult son lived in a village. The son drank a lot, and because of that could not find a job or start a family. Nothing was going well with him.
One day a woman brought her son to the most respected elder in the village, a wise man, and asked him …
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When I was in the civil service I sometimes violated the rules of the road. I repent. I exceeded the speed limit, forgot to turn on the lights on the track. It really happened.
But I never thought of avoiding the responsibility for my violations, by the help …
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Recently my son taught me a lesson in democracy.
That is how it was.
We drove the whole family (my wife, daughter, son, and I) by car. Our daughter loves music, and the son – silence. My daughter asked me to turn on the music. My wife and I were not against, so turned it …
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Recently, I happened to be at the auzashar (breaking of the fast) in a local mosque. I listened attentively to the preaching of the Imam. On this day he told the hadith about the restraint of the Prophet.
Once the Prophet was at sports competitions. People competed in …
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Two drivers quarreled in the center of the city. Most likely, one of them cut off the second one. The drivers get out of the cars and begin to figure out the relationship on the fists. One beats the second and leaves contented. The second remains to lie on the asphalt.
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Every time I go to Alma-Ata, I find more and more distinctions between the Alma-Ata and the Astana residents.
A lot of civil servants and employees of state companies live in Astana. This leaves an imprint on the general atmosphere in public places. Even on vacation (in restaurants, shopping centers, in the …
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I noticed an interesting detail: in Italy, sitting at a table of a restaurant or a cafe, we, as usual, took our phones and started communicating with virtual friends, but not with each other. We are already like zombies, obsessed with the Internet and smartphones. And when I casually looked around I have suddenly found …
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– Dad, you say we have to stand up for the weak and those who are offended. And imagine that I am returning home in the evening, and someone is grabbing a girl in the yard and dragging her into a dark corner. What should I do?
– What do you mean …
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