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Jai Ganesh

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Burned Quotes

Burned Quotes

1. It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. - George Bernard Shaw

2. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha

3. What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

4. As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree. - John Muir

5. I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. - Sean Penn

6. Every burned book enlightens the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. - Richard M. Nixon

8. All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. - Indira Gandhi

9. The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it. - Selena Gomez

10. Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. - Harry Houdini

11. I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date. - Anne Hathaway

12. I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York. - Catherine Zeta-Jones

13. My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to deal with a lot more racism because they grew up in the '70s and I grew up more in the '80s. So they had to deal with crosses being burned on their lawn and their dogs being poisoned. - Mariah Carey.

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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.