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Jai Ganesh

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1. Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. - Benjamin Franklin

2. To begin, begin. - William Wordsworth

3. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford

4. Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

5. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu

6. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney

7. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. - Mark Twain

8. It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. - Muhammad Ali

9. Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. - Horace

10. Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. - Khalil Gibran

11. If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. - Mahatma Gandhi

12. All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw

13. Every great story seems to begin with a snake. - Nicolas Cage

14. Begin with the end in mind. - Stephen Covey

15. It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. - Barack Obama

16. With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights. - Nikola Tesla

17. I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. - Galileo Galilei

18. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. - Francis Bacon

19. Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good. - Pythagoras

20. After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. - H. G. Wells

21. It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control. - Oprah Winfrey

22. But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. - Robert Browning

23. Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. - U Thant

24. After you score 300 runs in one innings, you begin to feel that every innings should be close to this one. Of course, I know that won't happen. But I will be disappointed if I get going well and am unable to convert it into a huge score. - Virender Sehwag

25. I have never moved away from my mainstay - trying to address all the environmental issues that come to me. I consult with law firms in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Italy, Greece, and India to begin to address environmental disasters. I do motivational speaking. - Erin Brockovich

26. It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it. - Mark Twain

27. I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. - Kofi Annan

28. What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. - Pablo Picasso

29. I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day. - Madhuri Dixit

30. When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth. - C. V. Raman

31. A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. - Jane Fonda

32. It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet. - Jane Goodall.

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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.