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- Jai Ganesh
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Circumference/Circumferences Quotes - I
Circumference/Circumstances Quotes - I
1. I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. - James Baldwin
2. The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary. - Sonali Bendre
4. Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone. - Neil Armstrong
5. When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity. - Maria Montessori
6. It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. - George Eliot
7. In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. - Charles Babbage
8. In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance. - Jane Goodall
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.
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