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Jai Ganesh

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Command Quotes - I

Command Quotes - I

1. I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. - Napoleon Bonaparte

2. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. - Edmund Burke

3. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! - Albert Einstein

4. We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon

5. We can't command our love, but we can our actions. - Arthur Conan Doyle

6. Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. - Mahatma Gandhi

7. 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

8. I cannot command winds and weather. - Horatio Nelson.

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