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Jai Ganesh

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Circumstances Quotes - IV

Circumstances Quotes - IV

1. I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions. - Indira Gandhi

2. Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. - Bill Gates

3. What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances. - Richard P. Feynman

4. To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances. - Abraham Lincoln

5. Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. - Napoleon Bonaparte

6. Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. - Montesquieu

7. We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things. - Theresa May

8. What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? - Jules Verne.

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