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Change the quotes said by famous people from direct to reported speech.

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quote which you agree/disagree most and comment on it:
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at“.
Stephen Hawking

“It‘s not the years in your life that count. It‘s the life in your years.“ Abraham Lincoln

“Your time is limited, so don‘t waste it living someone else‘s life.“ Steve Jobs

“If you look at what you have in life, you‘ll always have more. If you look at what you don‘t have in life,
you‘ll never have enough.“ Oprah Winfrey

“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.“


Dalai Lama

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed
door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.“ Helen Keller

“When everything seems to be against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with
it.“ Henry Ford

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.“ Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The best revenge is massive success.“ Frank Sinatra

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.“ J.K. Rowling
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at“.
Stephen Hawking
However difficult life might seem that was always something we could do and succeed at.

It‘s not the years in your life that count. It‘s the life in your years.“ Abraham Lincoln
It wasn’t the years in our life that counted. It was the life in our years.

“If you hear a voice within you say „you cannot paint,“ then by all means paint and
that voice will be silenced.“ Vincent Van Gogh
If we heard a voice within us said “You cannot paint” then by all means we had to paint and that voice
would be silenced.

“Your time is limited, so don‘t waste it living someone else‘s life.“ Steve Jobs
Our time was limited so we shouldn’t waste it living someone else’s life.

“If you look at what you have in life, you‘ll always have more. If you look at what you don‘t have in life,
you‘ll never have enough.“ Oprah Winfrey
If we looked at what we had in life, we would always have more. If we looked at what we didn’t have in
life, we would never have enough.

“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.“ Dalai Lama
Happiness was not something readymade. It came from

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do
not see the one that has been opened for us.“ Helen Keller

“When everything seems to be against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with
it.“ Henry Ford
When everything seemed to be against us we had to remember htat the airplane took off against the wind
not with it

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.“ Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The best revenge is massive success.“ Frank Sinatra


The best revenge was massive success.

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.“ J.K. Rowling

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