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We are living in an age where technology has suddenly annihilated distance. Physically we are all now neighbors but psychologically we are still strangers to each other. We have never been so conscious of variety as we are now. What shall be the outcome now when we have come to such close quarters with our neighbors? How are we going to react? Are we going to let this consciousness of variety make us fear and hate each other? In that event, we shall be dooming others to wipe each other out. Or are we going to learn to live like a single family? This is the only alternative to mutual destruction; but to achieve this high degree of amity, we have to value the variety of human heritage. We are not only to appreciate our neighbor's distinctive contributions. We have to love these as precious parts of mankind's common treasure. And we have to love our neighbors
themselves as precious members of human family which is not exposed to the common danger of being wiped out by atomic warfare. This is why India's conspicuous achievement of variety-in-unity is of worldwide importance.
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Qs.11/15: It is strange that, according to his position in life, an extravagant man is admired or despised. A successful businessman does nothing to increase his popularity by being careful with his money. He is expected to display his success, to have a smart car, an expensive life, and to be lavish with his hospitality. If he is not so, he is considered mean and his reputation in business may even suffer in consequence. The paradox remains that if he had not been careful with his money in the first place, he would never have achieved his present wealth. Among the two income groups, a different set of values exists. The young clerk who makes his wife a present of a new dress when he hadn't paid his house rent, is condemned as extravagant. Carefulness with money to the point of meanness is applauded as a virtue. Nothing in his life is considered more worthy than paying his bills. The ideal wife for such a man separates her housekeeping money into joyless little piles- so much for rent, for food, for the children's shoes; she is able to face the milkman with equanimity and never knows the guilt of buying something she can't really afford. As for myself, I fall into neither of these categories. If I have money to spare, I can be extravagant, but when, as is usually the case, I am hard up, then I am the meanest man imaginable.
Question: In the opinion of the writer, a successful businessman:
Ais more popular if he appears to be doing nothing.
Bshould not bother about his popularity.
Cmust be extravagant before achieving success.
Dis expected to have expensive tastes.
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