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Jai Ganesh

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Borne Quotes

Borne Quotes

1. It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. - Abraham Lincoln

2. Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. - Walter Scott

3. I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars. - Johannes Kepler

4. To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. - Sophocles

5. Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. - Pearl S. Buck

6. Whether it be a sage or a king, all have been borne by women. - Milkha Singh

7. The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest. Ban Ki-moon

8. It is important to take into account the total power cost borne by consumers after taking into account what they spend on inverters and gensets. - Piyush Goyal.

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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.