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 DOCTORS SERVICE

A doctor quickly entered the hospital after being called in for an urgent
surgery. He changed his clothes and went directly to the surgery block. He
saw the boy's father walking back and forth in the hall waiting for the
doctor.
Once seeing the doctor, the dad yelled: "Why did you take all this time to
come? Don't you know that my son's life is in danger? Don't you have the
sense of responsibility?"
The doctor smiled and said: "1 am sorry, I wasn't in the hospital and I
came the fastest I could. now, I wish you'd calm down so that can do my
work."
"Calm down?! What if your son was in this room right now, would you
calm down? If your own son dies now what will you do?" said the father
angrily.
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 DOCTORS SERVICE

The doctor smiled again and replied: "I will say what is said in the Holy Bible
From dust we came and to dust we return, blessed be the name of God.' Doctors
cannot prolong lives. Go and pray for your son, we will do our best by God’s
grace."
"Giving advice when we're not concerned is so easy" murmured the father.
The surgery took some hours after which the doctor went out happy, "Thank
God! Your son is saved!"
And without waiting for the father’s reply, he carried on his way running. "If
you have any question, ask the nurse.
"Why is he so arrogant? He couldn't wait some minutes so that I ask about my
son's state?" commented the father when seeing the nurse minutes after the
doctor left.

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 DOCTORS SERVICE

The nurse answered: "His son died yesterday in a road accident; he was in the
burial when we called him for your son's surgery."
Moral ; Stay calm in all situations so you can make decisions the best you can,
be it in life or business. and thank you doctors for the excellence works you do.

Vocabularies
Enter Prolong
Urgent Murmur
Surgery Arrogant
yell Accident
Responsibility

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 A best friend

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert.
During some point of the journey, they had an argument, and one
friend slapped the other one in the face.
The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything,
wrote in the sand;
“Today my best friend slapped me in the face.”
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they
decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in
the mud and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he
recovered from the drowning, he wrote on a stone;
“Today my best friend saved my life.”

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 A best friend

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him;
“After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a
stone, why?”
The other friend replied;
“When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where
winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does
something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no
wind can ever erase it.”
Moral of the story:
Don’t value the things you have in your life. But value who
you have in your life.
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 Vocabularies

Desert Value
Argument Engrave
Slap
Stuck
Drown

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 Use all your strength

To ask for help and support when we need it is

not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of wisdom.
While walking along a forest path, Diana and her
father came across a large tree branch on the
ground.
Dad, if I try, do you think I could move that
branch?
I am sure you can if you use all your strength.
Diana tried her best to lift the branch, but she
couldn't move it.
You were wrong, dad. I can't move it.
The disappointment was clear in the little girl’s
voice.
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 Use all your strength

Try again with all your strength.

Encouraged her father.
Diana tried again but failed.
Dad, I cannot do it!
Young lady, I advised you to use all your
strength. You didn't ask for my help.
Our real strength lies not in independence, but
in interdependence. To ask for help when in
need is not a sign of weakness but a sign of
wisdom.

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 Vocabularies

Sign Encourage
Weakness independence
Wisdom Interdependence
Path
Lift

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 A true servant

A king had a large number of slaves. One of them was very

black. He was true to the king. So, the king loved him
greatly. 

One day the king went out on a camel. Some slaves walked
in front of the king. Others went behind the king. The black
slave rode on a horse by the side of his master – The King.
The King had a box. There were pearls in it. On the way the
box fell down in a narrow street. It broke into pieces. The
pearls rolled on the ground.
The king said to his slaves. “Go and take the pearls. I do not
want them any longer," said the king.
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 A true servant

The slaves ran and gathered the pearls. They took those
pearls. The black slave did not leave his place.
 
He was by the side of his king. He guarded his king. He
cared for the life of his king. He did not care for the king’s
pearls. He was the true servant.
 
The king saw the attitude of the servant and gave him many
gifts.

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 Vocabularies

Slave Gather
Greatly Guard
Camel Servant
Pieces Gift

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 The bear and the travelers

Two travelers were walking across the forest.

Before they entered the forest, they promised to help each
other in times of danger. They were going into the forest.
After a while, they suddenly face a big bear.
The first traveler forgot his promise. He climbed up a tree
without caring for his friend.
The second traveler does not know how to climb a tree. To
face the bear alone was also not possible.
He thought for a second and fell on the ground. He acted like
a dead man.

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 The bear and the travelers

The bear came close to him. It smelled him and went away
thinking that he was dead.
 
After the bear left, the man on the top of the tree came down
and asked the fellow traveler, “What did the bear tell you?"
 
“Do not believe a friend who lets you down in times of
danger" said the second traveler.
 
The promises of the coward do not stand a test.
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 Vocabularies

Danger Coward
Suddenly Fellow
Climb

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 Father and son conversation

One day, father was doing some work and his son came and
asked, "Daddy, may I ask you a question?" Father said, "Yeah
sure, what it is?" So, his son asked, "Dad, how much do you make
an hour?" Father got bit upset and said, "That's none of your
business. Why do you ask such a thing?" Son said, "I just want to
know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?" So, father
told him that "I make $50 per hour."
"Oh", the little boy replied, with his head down. Looking up, he
said, "Dad, may I please borrow $25?" The father furiously said,
"if the only reason you asked about my pay is so that you can
borrow some money to buy a silly toy or other nonsense, then
march yourself to your room and go to bed. Think why you are
being so selfish. I work hard every day and do not like this
childish behavior."
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 Father and son conversation

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The
man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little
boy's question.
How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?
After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and
started to think, "May be there was something he really
needed to buy with that $25 and he really don’t ask for
money very often!" The man went to the door of little boy's
room and opened the door. "Are you asleep, son?" He asked.
"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy. "I've been thinking,
maybe I was too hard on you earlier", said the man. "It's been
a long day and I took out my aggravation on you, Here's the
$25 you asked for".
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 Father and son conversation

The little boy sat straight up, smiling "oh thank you dad!" He
yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled some
money. The man, seeing that the boy already had money,
started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out
his money, then looked up at his father.
"Why do you want money if you already had some?" the
father grumbled. "Because I didn't have enough, but now I
do," the little boy replied. "Daddy I have $50 now. Can I buy
an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I
would like to have dinner with you". Father was dumbstruck.

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 Vocabularies
Borrow Dare
Furiously Aggravation
Silly Grumble
Childish Dumbstruck
Behavior
Shut

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 Arrogant rich girl

Once a poor boy fell in love with a rich man daughter. Boy loved
her a lot, so one day he proposed to her.
Girl rejected him by saying, “Listen, your monthly salary is even
less than my daily expenses. How can I live with you? How
could you even think of coming to me and ask me?? I can never
ever love you. Forget about me and go find someone of your
level to get engaged.” Even after knowing girl’s thought, he still
loved her and after getting rejected boy left but couldn’t forget
her. 10 years later they bumped into each other in a shopping
mall.
Girl recognized him and said, “Hey!! You. how are you?? I am
married now He is very smart and do you know how much is my
husband’s salary...!! it’s 20,000$ per month. Can you beat that?? 21
 Arrogant rich girl

Boy eye’s got wet hearing those words from same person. A
few seconds later her husband came around.
Before girl could say a word seeing the guy her husband
said, “Sir, you are here! you have met my wife.”
“This is my boss. I am one of those working for his 100
million $ project.” husband said looking at his wife.
Husband continued, “He is very good person and do you
know my dear, my boss loved a girl but he couldn’t win her
heart that’s why he remained unmarried. How lucky would
that girl have been, if she married my boss now...!! Now days
who would have loved someone so much.”
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Moral:
Life is too short so don’t be too arrogant and proud of yourself and
look down on others current situation. Things change, time changes.
Don’t underestimate anyone because everyone can have a great
future.

Vocabularies

Propose Boss
Expense Current
Engage underestimate
Recognize

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 Best friends

Long Ago, in a village lived two friends Raman and Kawa.

Raman was from wealthy family whereas kawa was from
poor family.
Despite their status difference they used to stay with each
other all the time and were best friends.
As time went by both grew up and got busy with their life.
With busy life they didn’t get much time to meet each other.
One day, kawa got very ill and he was given bed rest. When
Raman came to know about it. He went to Kawa’s house to
meet him. He didn’t stay there for long and talked much but
instead he just took some money out of his pocket and gave
it to his friend and left.
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 Best friends

Kawa felt very bad but didn’t say anything to him. With time
Kawa got well and worked hard to earn money so that he
could return Raman’s money.
Once Kawa earned enough money. He went to Raman’s
house to return his money. Still Kawa couldn’t forget how
rude was Raman’s behavior toward him.
Just after sometime, Raman got ill and doctor suggested him
bed rest.
As soon as Kawa got News of Raman’s illness, he left all his
work as it is and went to meet Raman and stayed by his side
until Raman got all well.
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 Best friends

After this, one day Raman went to meet Kawa and said, “My
friend, I feel very guilty. When you fell ill, I gave you money
and you returned it.
But when I got ill, you stayed by my side whole time and took
care of me, how am I ever going to be able to return this favor
of yours...?”
Kawa hugged him and replied, “I just wanted you to realize
that money is not everything and today I am very happy that
you understand that.”
Moral: Money is not everything. Friendship is all about Care
and Affection.
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 Vocabularies

Village Guilty
Whereas Hug
Status Affection
Despite
Earn

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 Health is wealth

Once upon a time, there lived a generous and kind-hearted

king. But the people weren't happy with their king because
the king was very lazy and would not do anything other than
eating and sleeping.
He spent days and weeks and months in his bed either eating
something or sleeping. The king became very fat and the
people started to worry about the king.
One day, the king realized that he couldn't even move his
body, not even his foot. He became very fat and his enemies
made fun of him, calling him 'fatty king’.
The king invited expert doctors from various parts of his
country and offered them generous rewards to make him fit.
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 Health is wealth

Unfortunately, none could help the king gain his health and
fitness. The king spent enormous amounts of money but
everything went in vain.
One fine morning, a holy man visited the country. He heard
about the king’s situation, and informed the minister at the
palace that he could easily cure the king. Hearing these
promising words, the minister became very happy. He
requested the king to meet the holy man to get rid of his
problem.
The holy man resided at a distant place. Since the king could
not move his body, he asked the minister to bring the holy
man to the palace, but the holy man refused. He said that the
king had to go to him, in order to get cured.
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 Health is wealth

After strenuous efforts, the king met the holy man. The holy
man complimented the king saying that he was a good ruler,
and said that he would soon regain his health. He asked the
king to come for treatment the next day. He told the king also
that the king would be treated only if he came on foot to the
holy man’s house.
The King was unable to walk even a few steps on the road,
but aided by his followers, he reached the holy man's place.
Unfortunately, the holy man was not available there and his
servant requested the king to come and meet him the next
day for treatment.
This was repeated for two weeks and the king never met the
holy man, and never had any treatment. 30
 Health is wealth

Gradually, the king realized that he felt a lot lighter, lost a

considerable amount of weight and felt more active than
before. He realized the reason why the holy man asked him
to reach his place by walking.
 
Very soon, the king regained his health, and the people were
very happy in his kingdom.
 
Health is Wealth

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 Vocabularies
Kind-hearted Minister
Various Reside
Gain Strenuous
Vain Gradually
Fitness Considerable
Enormous

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 Value yourself

A speaker started off his seminar by showing $20 to

the public. He asked the people “who wants this?”
There was no surprise to see that all of them lifted
their hands. He offered to give the money to one of
them but instead that he will do something else to it.
He crumpled the money and showed it again to the
crowd and repeated the question. Who wants this?
Still, everyone raised their hands. He then put the
money into the ground and stepped on it and then
raised it again and asked, who wants this? And offered
it to the public.
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 Value yourself

The people gathered there still showed interest to take that

money despite seeing how dirty the money was. He told the
public” No matter what I did to this money, you all still wanted
this.
You all wanted the money despite what I did to it, because the
value of the money never decrease. Similarly, value yourself
despite the painful conditions or failures”
 
Moral: Believe in yourself and work hard to achieve success.
Value yourself irrespective of the failures or obstacles and
don’t disvalue yourself just because of the temporary obstacles
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 Vocabularies

Public Dirty
Lift Painful
Instead Conditions
Crumple
Crowd

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 Kid and father

Alan was a seven-year-old boy. He was naughty, funny and

very mischievous. One day, his mom was unwell and he was
looked after by his daddy. Alan’s daddy asked him to go to
bed as it was close to 9.30 pm. Alan went to his room. His
daddy was watching television in the living room.
 
It was 9.45 and Alan called, ‘Daddy, can you please bring me
a glass of water to drink?’
Daddy was annoyed, ‘No way Alan! You get it on your own!’

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 Kid and father

After five minutes, Alan called his dad and said, ‘Daddy can you
please give me a glass of water? I’m very thirsty’
Daddy replied, ‘No Alan. I already told you!’
 
After five minutes, Alan shouted, ‘Daddy can you please give me
water?’
Daddy said, ‘I told you twice, I won’t! If you ask again, I will come
in and hit you!’
Alan was silent for a while. After 10 minutes, ‘Daddy, when you
come to hit me, can you please give me a glass of water?’
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 Vocabularies

Naughty Hit
Mischievous Speechless
Unwell
Annoyed

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 Soldier’s story

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home

after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from
San Francisco. “Mom and Dad, I’m coming home, but I’ve a
favor to ask. I have a friend I’d like to bring home with me.
“Sure,” they replied, “we’d love to meet him.”
“There’s something you should know,” the son continued, “he
was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a
landmine and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to
go, and I want him to come to live with us.”
“I’m sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find
somewhere to live.”
“No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us.”
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 Soldier’s story

“Son,” said the father, “you don’t know what you’re asking.
Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden
on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can’t let
something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should
just come home and forget about this guy. He’ll find a way to
live on his own.”
At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard
nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they
received a call from the San Francisco police station. Their
son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The
police believed it was suicide.
The heartbroken parents flew to San Francisco and were
taken to the city to identify the body of their son.
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 Soldier’s story

They recognized him, but they also discovered something they

didn’t know, their son had only one arm and one leg.
Moral: The parents in this story are like many of us. We find it easy
to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around, but we
don’t like people who inconvenience us or make us feel
uncomfortable. We would rather stay away from people who
aren’t as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we are. Thankfully, there’s
someone who won’t treat us that way. Someone who loves us with
an unconditional love that welcomes us into the forever family,
regardless of how messed up we are.

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 Vocabularies
Landmine Heartbroken
Handicap Identify
Burden Inconvenience
Interfere Uncomfortable
Suicide Regardless
Unconditional

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