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Pradeep Arora
“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
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
– Otto Von Bismarck
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.”
– Henry Ford
“There is enough on earth for everybody’s need; but not for everybody’s greed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“In the end it’s not the years in your life that counts, it’s the life in your years.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubts.”
– Mark Twain
“There are only two tragedies in life; one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.”
– Oscar Wide
“A ship is always safe at the shore but that is not what it is built for.”
– Albert Einstein
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