"night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf."

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Source : Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green

Ethel Smyth

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“The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”

Source : "Salman Rushdie: Do we have to fight the battle for the Enlightenment all over again?" by Salman Rushdie, www.independent.co.uk. January 22, 2005.
“I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.”
“My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.”

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield
“Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.182, Oxford University Press
“I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.”
“To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call”
“One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food”
“I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.”

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