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Jai Ganesh

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Burns Quotes

Burns Quotes

1. When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes. - Oprah Winfrey

2. 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

3. Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4. Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. - Ernest Hemingway

5. The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. - Ovid

6. Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat. - Harry Houdini

7. I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation. - Viswanathan Anand

8. It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. - Zubin Mehta.

 

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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.