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Jai Ganesh

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Bay and Bayonets Quotes

Bay and Bayonets Quotes

1. The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. - Steve Jobs

2. The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

3. Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day. - Tom Hanks

4. I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay. - Monica Seles

5. I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts. - Jimmy Carter

6. In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. - Clint Eastwood

7. You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. - Boris Yeltsin

8. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Napoleon - Bonaparte

9. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root. - Ronald Reagan

10. You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them. - Thomas Hardy

11. A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte.

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