Including the Oscar winning romantic movie Yellow Lemon Tree which you might have watched already, President Abraham Lincoln acted in three movies. All are highly rated super hit movies in those days. Had he not served as the President, we would have got more movies from him. Interestingly, as you aware, he was assassinated while watching a play in Ford's Theatre - as if his whole life is dedicated to Cinema.
Rich nation's poor son: A poor child getting education is the act of pressing a magic button to produce the extraordinary achievements which are otherwise impossible. Education, despite one's poverty, can let one to walk on in the midst of sufferings and stand tall against all obstacles. Nothing can match the value and satisfaction of winning the struggles by your own efforts. Perhaps, that is why we tend love God when He gives what we pray than what He Himself choose to give something good for us. There were hundreds of poor farmer kids around this child hero. But only he embarked on a quest for education. He got no money for formal learning. It was pure self education and with only his mother supporting him. Though it was filled with full of pain he slowly climbed up on the ladder of life with the help of education and ranked among the best known personalities of his country.
Yellow Lemon Tree: I used to think that no love can exist without the ability to listen to the heart through the eyes of the loved one. But then we have blind people and they too love and they need no eyes to see the deepest of the other person. May be, true love is the unconscious habit of continuous strengthening of the inner harmony of the souls regardless of the outer states - fighting, laughing, crying... whatever it is. Of course, I agree, one is sure to find many things to defeat whatever way you define love. Spotty is poor. He got no real education, no good job, not even a good dressing sense. He got really nothing to attract a girl. Molly got wealthy parents, good education and she was just 21 while Spotty was 31 and ignoring everything they got married. I don't know whether that was because of love but then what else?
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Battle of Belmont: Our history records a lot about wars than anything else. There are lots of good war movies. Lion of the Desert and Lawrence of Arabia are two of my favourite old war movies. It is very difficult for a leader to avoid war, especially in those days. Of course, given almost equal resources, you win as long as your strategy is superior. Do you think India would have chosen nonviolent civil disobedience if it was against Hitler? Uncle Abe too is not an exception from this. He was faced with slavery, sectionalism, protectionism, territorial crisis. He was losing many battles. But at the end he won all the major battles with the brilliance of Ulysses.
Yes, at times, you have to agree with this:
பொய்மையும் வாய்மை இடத்த புரை தீர்ந்த
நன்மை பயக்கும் எனின்.
பொய்மையும் வாய்மை இடத்த புரை தீர்ந்த
நன்மை பயக்கும் எனின்.
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