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Jai Ganesh

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Built Quotes - I

Built Quotes - I

1. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. - Henry Ford

2. 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

3. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. - Harry S Truman

4. People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. - Eleanor Roosevelt

5. Great companies are built on great products. - Elon Musk

6. Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected. - Mark Zuckerberg

7. You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. - Steve Jobs

8. Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. - Henri Poincare

9. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. - Voltaire

10. I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent. - Michael Jordan

11. In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. - Queen Elizabeth II

12. Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. - Francis Bacon.

 

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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.