"Retiring from cricket is not about form. I feel that the time is now and it's right. I've tried to give everything I have when I've played the game, the game goes on. You can't hold onto it and people shouldn't be too sentimental. I think a lot better players and greater players have gone, and the game has gone on and there are new players who take the mantle, and in my case it won't be any different."

-- Kumar Sangakkara

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“I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.”
“Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.”

Source : Linda Barnes (2015). “Hardware”, p.49, Open Road Media
“Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.”
“I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to a vine! I couldn't go there! I'd go to the desert to find a dragon. I began to reset the spyglass, but then I stopped myself. A spider was worse than a dragon? No. My first monsters would be spiders, then.”
“Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.”
“But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.”
“The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.”

Source : Sloan Wilson (1976). “What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after”, Arbor House Publishing
“Money always has come to me, because I always have seen myself as endlessly abundant.”

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