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Jai Ganesh

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Certain Quotes - VIII

Certain Quotes - VIII

1. I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. - Georg Cantor

2. In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! - Jules Verne

3. For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy

4. There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance. - Roger Penrose

5. Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out. - Mikhail Gorbachev

6. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein

7. We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact. - Steve Jobs

8. If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not. - James Baldwin

9. We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time. - Warren Buffett

10. What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. - Aristotle

11. We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. - Stephen Covey

12. 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. - Lord Byron.

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