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Jai Ganesh

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Born Quotes - III

Born Quotes - III

1. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. - John F. Kennedy

2. In soft regions are born soft men. - Herodotus

3. From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. - Michelangelo

4. If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe. - Guru Nanak

5. No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. - John Milton

6. Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. - Ovid

7. A career is born in public - talent in privacy. - Marilyn Monroe

8. I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty. - Narendra Modi

9. There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. - William Harvey

10. Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do? - - Maxim Gorky

11. To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful. - William Butler Yeats

12. The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. - Sophia Loren

13. Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. - Samuel Johnson

14. We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. Why was I born with such contemporaries? - Oscar Wilde/

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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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