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Jai Ganesh

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Choose Quotes - III

Choose Quotes - III

1. We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. - Dag Hammarskjold

2. Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell

3. My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads, 'I'm With Her.' I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads, 'I'm with you - the American people.' - Donald Trump

4. We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. - Lyndon B. Johnson

5. To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. - Plato

6. When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. - Edmund Burke

7. 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' - Lewis Carroll

8. Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. - George Bernard Shaw.

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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.