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Jai Ganesh

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Chief Quotes - III

Chief Quotes - III

1. The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. - Colin Powell

2. The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3. By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company. - Nikola Tesla

4. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy

5. The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. - John Kenneth Galbraith

6. When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces. - Joe Biden

7. The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. - Leo Tolstoy

8. To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. - Bertrand Russell.

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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.