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Jai Ganesh

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Closely Quotes - I

Closely Quotes - I

1. Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety. - Dalai Lama

2. My journey was not hard because I have seen stardom and the downfall very closely in my career. - Rahul Roy

3. Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices. - Annie Besant

4. I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty. - Narendra Modi

5. Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon. - M. S. Swaminathan

6. I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. - Robert Louis Stevenson

7. For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. - Vladimir Kramnik

8. We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. - Wilhelm Ostwald.

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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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