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Jai Ganesh

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Build Quotes - I

Build Quotes - I

1. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. - Warren Buffet

2. It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. - Benjamin Franklin

3. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie

4. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford

5. You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. - Walt Disney

6. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Calvin Coolidge

7. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. - Nikita Khrushchev

8. We build too many walls and not enough bridges. - Isaac Newton

9. The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

10. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. - Nikola Tesla

11. To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. - Winston Churchill

12. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. - Abraham Lincoln.

 

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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.