"I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments."

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Source : "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.

Arthur Ashe

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“One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.”
“When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that sheâ€™d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.”

Source : J. Courtney Sullivan (2013). “The Engagements”, p.32, Vintage
“People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.”
“The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned”
“We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.”
“Every penny from Gossip Girl, my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.”

Source : "Kelly Rutherford Says She's Broke From Custody Battle: Everything 'Spent Fighting for My Children'" by Natalie Finn, www.eonline.com. April 26, 2013.
“I enjoy being a woman. It's what I learned from years of experience in modeling. You learn how to seduce; how to be sensual, how to play. It's very important for a woman, I think. But it's not by beauty that you seduce. It's a meeting - it depends on the image the other reflects back to you, how they see you and make you feel.”
“A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.”

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