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Jai Ganesh

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Come Quotes - XI

Come Quotes - XI

1. You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying. - Azim Premji

2. Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. - Woodrow Wilson

3. This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence. - Michael Phelps

4. For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. - Queen Elizabeth II

5. Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. - Neil Armstrong

6. Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. - E. O. Wilson

7. I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short. - Anthony Hopkins

8. Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. - Montesquieu.

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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.