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Jai Ganesh

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Close Quotes - II

Close Quotes - II

1. To draw you must close your eyes and sing. - Pablo Picasso

2. Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3. It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. - Voltaire

4. I usually tried to stay in the net for 45 minutes, half an hour longer than most batsmen would stick at the county nets. There was a reason for this so-called gluttony of practice: it was a conscious effort to make myself concentrate for long periods of time in circumstances as close to the real thing as I could make them. Geoffrey Boycott

5. Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family. - Anushka Sharma

6. If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is! - Richard P. Feynman

7. I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone. - Anthony Hopkins

8. The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. - Khalil Gibran.

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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.