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Jai Ganesh

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Come Quotes - IX

Come Quotes - IX

1. Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference. - Jane Fonda

2. All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. - John Ruskin

3. People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. - Bill Gates

4. If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults. - Confucius

5. The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. - Condoleezza Rice

6. When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it. - Al Pacino

7. Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. - C. S. Lewis

8. I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. - Clint Eastwood.

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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.