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Jai Ganesh

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Built Quotes - II

Built Quotes - II

1. Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys. - Christopher Columbus

2. There's a very fundamental basic value system that I think America was built upon, and that's mutual respect, honor, integrity and concern for our environment and the right to clean water. And we have moved away from it. - Erin Brockovich

3. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants. - Hillary Clinton

5. It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. - Sigmund Freud

6. Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again. - John Muir

7. I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent black young women - playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States. - Michelle Obama

8. I was built this way for a reason, so I'm going to use it. - Simone Biles

9. Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. - U Thant

10. I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill. -  Matthew McConaughey

11. Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. - Ernest Hemingway

12. The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. - C. V. Raman.

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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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