"I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people."

-- John Newcombe

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“Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks
“We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictoral equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.”
“Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.”
“By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.”

Source : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.1, Macmillan
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”

Source : "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005-.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.”
“"The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world," she said. "Today is first and foremost a time to say thank you," "I shall personally never, ever forget this."”

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