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Jai Ganesh

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Chief Quotes - I

Chief Quotes - I

1. An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person. - Leo Tolstoy

2. Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. - Napoleon Bonaparte

3. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller

4. The press is our chief ideological weapon. - Nikita Khrushchev

5. The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. - Thomas A. Edison

6. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. - Albert Einstein

8. The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense. - Pablo Picasso.

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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.