"I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship."

-- Joseph Conrad

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“Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.”
“I love goofing around, and I love breaking people's balls. I do it off camera, as well as on camera.”
“Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.”
“However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own”

Source : Rafael Nadal, John Carlin (2011). “Rafa: My Story”, p.68, Hachette UK
“I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.”
“And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.”
“The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'Ãªtre if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.”
“I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.”

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