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Jai Ganesh

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Closes and Closest Quotes - I

Closes and Closest Quotes - I

1. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

2. He who opens a school door, closes a prison. - Victor Hugo

3. Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door. - Brooke Shields

4. Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. Mother Teresa

5. Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get. - Kevin Costner

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

7. It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work. - Amartya Sen

8. The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck. - Elvis Presley.

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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.