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Jai Ganesh

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Come Quotes - III

Come Quotes - III

1. Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. - Jules Verne

2. On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage

3. I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. - Michael Jordan

4. From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. - Socrates

5. The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. - R. Buckminster Fuller

6. Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.' - Alfred Lord Tennyson

7. Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. - Leonardo da Vinci

8. What goes up must come down. - Isaac Newton.

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