S1: | The art of growing old is one which the passage of time has forced upon my attention. | P : | One of these is undue absorption in the past. | Q : | One s thought must be directed to the future and to things about which there is something to be done. | R : | Psychologically, there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. | S : | It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friend who are dead. | S6: | This is not always easy one s own past is gradually increasing weight. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | This weather-vane often tops a church spire, tower or high building. | P : | They are only wind-vanes. | Q : | Neither alone can tell us what the weather will be. | R : | They are designed to point to direction from which the wind is coming. | S : | Just as the barometer only tells us the pressure of air, the weather-vane tells us the direction of wind. | S6: | The weather-vane can, however give us some indication of other. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | Once King Shantnu met a young and beautiful fisher girl. | P : | He went to the fisherman and asked him for her asked him for her hand in marriage. | Q : | The King was extremely sad and returned to his palace. | R : | He fell in love with the fisher girl. | S : | The fisherman agreed to it condition that the son of his daughter should be heir to the throne of Hastinapur. | S6: | Devavrata, the King s son, asked him the reason of his sadness. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | Since the sixties there has been an increasing interest in neurophysiology, which deals with the neural bases of mental activity and behaviour. | P : | It has format which is very similar to that of Brain and Language, a sister journal. | Q : | Since then, a number of journals devoted entirely to this area of research have appeared. | R : | Before the 1960 s when this field was the concern of a small number of investigators, research articles were scattered in various neurological journals. | S : | Brain and cognition is one such journal. | S6: | So far the journal has published the mixture of articles including reports and investigations. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | Reliogion is not a matter of mere dogmatic conformity. | P : | It is not merely going through the ritual prescribed to us. | Q : | It is not a question of ceremonial piety. | R : | Unless that kind of transformation occurs, you are not an authentically religious man. | S : | It is the remarking of your own self, the transformation of your nature. | S6: | A man of that character is free from fear, free from hatred. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | I keep on flapping my big ears all day. | P : | They also fear that I will flip them all away. | Q : | But children wonder why I flap them so. | R : | I flap them so to make sure they are safely there on either side of my head. | S : | But I know what I am doing. | S6: | Am I not a smart, intelligent elephant? | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | The December dance and music season in Madras is like the annual tropical cyclone. | P : | A few among the new aspirants dazzle witht he colour of youth, like fresh saplings. | Q : | It rains an abundance of music for over a fortnight. | R : | Thick clouds expectation charge the atmosphere with voluminous advertisements. | S : | At the end of it one is left with the feeling that the music of only those artists seasoned by careful nurturing, stands tall like well-routed trees. | S6: | Many a hastily planed shrub gets washed away in the storm. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | You know my wife, Madhavi, always urged me to give up smoking. | P : | I really gave it up. | Q : | And so When I went to jail I said to myself I really must give it up, if for no other reason than of being self-reliant. | R : | When I emerged from jail, I wanted to tell her of my great triumph. | S : | But when I met her, there she was with a packet of cigarettes. | S6: | poor girl!. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | Politeness is not a quality possessed by only one nation or race. | P : | One may observe that a man of one nation will remove his hat or fold his hands by way of greetings when he meets someone he knows. | Q : | A man of another country will not to do so. | R : | It is a quality to be found among all peoples and nations in every corner of the earth. | S : | Obviously, each person follows the custom of his particular country. | S6: | In any case, we should not mock at others habits. | The Proper sequence should be:
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S1: | Jawaharlal Nehru was the greatest plan-enthusiast. | P : | Under Nehru s advice, the pre-Independent congress set up National Planning Commission in 1938. | Q : | But he forgot that what could be achieved by force under the communist dictatorship of Russia was not possible under the democratic set up of India. | R : | He took the idea from Russia where Five year plans transformed a very backward country into a top power of the world. | S : | No free government can call for compulsory sacrifice and suffering from the whole people. | S6: | Nehru himself became the chairman of the commission. | The Proper sequence should be:
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