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Jai Ganesh

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Broken Quotes - IV

Broken Quotes - IV

1. Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs. - Barack Obama

2. Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. - W. Somerset Maugham

3. My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's. - Mariah Carey

4. All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken. - Annie Besant

5. It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head. - Mahatma Gandhi

6. I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it. - Clint Eastwood

7. As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken Glass happened. And Ludwigshafen was purely a workers' city, so we didn't have a very big Jewish community. What I did know about the Jews, I heard from my mother. My mother was very much pro-Jewish. - Helmut Kohl

8. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee

9. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

10. Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

11. I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow. - Hillary Clinton

12. Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies. - Buzz Aldrin.

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