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Jai Ganesh

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Burn Quotes - I

Burn Quotes - I

1. If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

2. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell

3. Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. - Buddha

4. Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. - Francis Bacon

5. Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life. - Frederick Banting

6. People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see. - Leonardo da Vinci

7. We will burn that bridge when we come to it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8. As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. - Chanakya

9. Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. - Thomas Gray

10. A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. - Boris Yeltsin

11. The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution. - Ban Ki-moon

12. And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

 

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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.