"Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own."

-- G. H. Hardy

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“Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.”
“My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.”
“If you had a man when I was your friend and then we started hooking up and you broke up with your boyfriend, so now we're together and you have a new male friend? I'm going to look at you sideways because your character's horrible and now I'm thinking you're going to do to me what you did to your ex.”

Source : "MTV2's Guy Code Fellows Tell Us All About Love, Sex, & Relationships". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2013.
“I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.”

Source : "Lockpick Pornography". Book by Joey Comeau, 2005.
“The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.”
“Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.183, Cambridge University Press
“Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind what is the state of his mind, or his manner of earning. So what is the good of such respect, and how happy will such a man be in himself? And if he is what passes for happy, such a state is lower than the self-content of the meanest animal.”

Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.”

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