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Jai Ganesh

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Choice Quotes - VI

Choice Quotes - VI

1. In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith

2. That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question. - Billie Jean King

3. From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort. - Nelson Mandela

4. Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. - Aristotle

5. I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle. - Salma Hayek

6. When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. - Samuel Johnson

7. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde

8. Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice. - Tom Hanks.

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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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