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Jai Ganesh

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Closely Quotes - II

Closely Quotes - II

1. The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. - Denis Diderot

2. One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation. - Tim Berners-Lee

3. There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. - Jimmy Wales

4. When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world. - Marilyn Monroe

5. I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in. - Angelina Jolie

6. The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image. - Octavio Paz

7. I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I'm very proud of my gravy. - Kate Moss

8. The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out. - Azim Premji.

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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.