Test Level 2: Odd Sentence Out (August 9) - CAT MCQ

They are not altogether useless since they point to the feeling of unity with the universe which is latent in all of us.

The Upnishads tell us that the life of man has affinity with the planetary and the physical, the plant and the animal.

Spiritual life is not inertia or indifference but is light and freedom, peace and power.

The ecstatic moods induced by drugs, anaesthesia and such other aids are quite different from the spiritual attitude of those who have won integrity or wholeness of life.

None of these

Where once Europeans and North Americans might have turned to religion or philosophy to understand themselves, increasingly they are embracing psychotherapy and its cousins.

One reason that mindfulness finds such an eager audience is that it garbs itself in a mantle of value-neutrality.

Instead of engaging in deliberation about oneself, what the arts of mindfulness have in common is a certain mode of attending to present events - often described as a 'nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment'.

Practitioners are discouraged from engaging with their experiences in a critical or evaluative manner, and often they're explicitly instructed to disregard the content of their own thoughts.

The mindfulness movement is a prominent example of this shift in cultural habits of self-reflection and interrogation.

The house will save you rental expense in the future.

Take a hard look at your assets and allocate them for future use.

Save as much as you can in the years in which your income is higher than the expenses.

If you have a house that you live in, and a few deposits, shares and mutual funds, map these assets to your needs.

The other assets should also have an identified use - your child's higher education and marriage, your international travel plans, your need for investment income when your regular income falls, and your need to leave behind assets for your children.

The vibrations in a piano are caused by hammers striking the strings, with the resulting string vibrations being transmitted to a soundboard

Even though the sounding system of early and modern piano is pretty similar, there are some differences between of them.

The modern piano has a cast-iron frame capable of withstanding the tremendous tension of the strings, which makes a louder sound than earlier ones.

Modern hammers are covered with felt, but earlier generations hammers were covered with leather.

On the other hand, early piano had wood frames, and they could only lightly string.

Empirical evidence demonstrates clear linkages between human resource practices based on the behavioural sciences and various aspects of a firm's financial success.

Behavioural science courses should be gaining prominence in business school curricula.

Increasingly, CEOs today recognise human resource investments as prohibitive overheads that militate the creation of a more mechanistic organisational model.

Recent theoretical work convincingly shows why behavioural factors such as organisational culture and employee relations are among the few remaining sources of sustainable competitive advantage in modern organisations.

Some of the world's most successful organisations have made unique human resource practices a core element of their overall business strategy.

It is nothing of the kind; when you attain God, the whole thing goes - the entire fabric of relations, as it happens in dream, for instance, which is absorbed into the waking consciousness.

Just as meditation is not a private practice, your achievement in spiritual life is also not a private achievement.

Because of the fact that you cannot think the cosmos in your mind at one stroke, you are taking resort to some particular form for meditation.

Nobody attains God individually.

The whole world goes with you, as against the normal erroneous thought that when a person attains God only one person goes.

Students came to the institute from all over France, bringing signs they had used to communicate with at home.

In 1755 the French Catholic priest Charles-Michel de l'Épée established a more comprehensive method for educating the deaf.

The system had its challenges, especially when learning the words for abstract terms, or intangible forms.

Épée adapted these signs and added his own manual alphabet, creating a signing dictionary. He was insistent that sign language needed to be a complete language.

It was culminated in the founding of the first public school for deaf children, the National Institute for Deaf-Mutes in Paris.

Others believe that complex identities confuse audiences about an organization’s role or purpose.

One argument is that actors that do not fit within a single, well-defined category may suffer an “illegitimacy discount”.

Some organizations have complex and multidimensional identities that span or combine categories, while other organizations possess narrow identities.

Identity is one of the most important features of organizations, but there exist opposing views among sociologists about how identity affects organizational performance.

Those who think that complex identities are beneficial point to the strategic advantages of ambiguity, and organizations’ potential to differentiate themselves from competitors. 

According to a 2015 survey by National Retail Federation, 10% of merchandise sold over the holidays was returned in 2016.

Even though your great aunt's heart may have been in the right place when she sent you that oversized, shapeless sweater or pair of ugly reindeer socks, let's face it, you are never going to use them.

Though Christmas may be the season of giving, some gifts may not be much of a pleasure to receive.

3.5% of all those holiday returns were fraudulent and that has led to many retailers tightening up return policies.

Many electronic items have shorter time-frames for returns than clothing items. Be aware of these deadlines when you are making your decision on whether or not to keep the item.

In fact, Eagleton goes meta: he begins by noting that many writers on the topic begin by noting this and he notes that it isn't always true.

The British comedian Stewart Lee, who may be the best stand-up working today, makes a trademark of analyzing jokes on stage in order to critique the audience response.

Like many writers on this topic, Terry Eagleton begins his new book, Humour, by owning the complaint that to analyze humor is to kill it.

Eagleton doesn't quite avoid its pitfalls, but he does a lot besides.

When we attempt to explain a joke, what we are doing is continuous with this; it is what stand-ups do, to wonderful effect, on Stuart Goldsmith's podcast 'The Comedian's Comedian.'