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Jai Ganesh

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Chief Quotes - II

Chief Quotes - II

1. Be the chief but never the lord. - Lao Tzu

2. Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. - John D. Rockefeller

3. The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. - Leonardo da Vinci

4. We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

5. The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. - Hippocrates

6. The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost

7. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. - William Blake

8. Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. - Khalil Gibran.

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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.