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Jai Ganesh

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Certain Quotes - II

Certain Quotes - II

1. Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' - George W. Bush

3. What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. - Margaret Thatcher

4. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

5. Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. - Agatha Christie

6. Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems. - Jawaharlal Nehru

7. When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

8. Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal. - Walt Disney

10. The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. - Boutros Boutros-Ghali

11. If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty. - Stephen Covey

12. There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space. - Buzz Aldrin.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.