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Jai Ganesh

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Clear Quotes - II

Clear Quotes - II

1. The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load. - Queen Elizabeth II

2. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C. S. Lewis

3. The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. - Rabindranath Tagore

4. It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. - Bill Gates

5. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. - George Orwell

6. We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. - Barack Obama

7. Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. - Paulo Coelho

8. It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. - Herodotus.

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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.