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Jai Ganesh

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Chance Quotes - VIII

Chance Quotes - VIII

1. I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard. - Shakira

2. I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study. - Sun Yat-sen

3. If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream. - Michelle Obama

4. One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

5. Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. - Steven Spielberg

6. When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ. - Muhammad Ali

7. While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. - H. G. Wells

8. I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly. - Sean Connery

9. Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen. - Salma Hayek

10. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. - Jane Austen

11. I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world. - Al Gore

12. I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed. - Michelle Obama.

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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.

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