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“No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.”
Source : Gideon Haigh (2012). “On Warne”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
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“Who goes from America to Africa for medical attention?”
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“Recognize how truly blessed you are. Take time to count your blessings and write them down. To make your dreams come true you must already be soaking in the very presence you wish to create.”
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“Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the majority of Germans throughout the 1930s and World War II; and by the countless countries, communities and individuals who collaborated with the vast constellation of Hitler's monsters in the gruesome murder of well over 60% of European Jewry. Codex Orféo reminds us that the root of that insanity is continuing in the form of contemporary Holocausts against other species, with equally systematic, atrocious and inexplicable madness.”
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“The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which is gonna lead to more executive compensation than if you pay your employees less and try to take all the cream off of the top.”
Source : ""Life Is Unfair": Talking Inequality With The Hedge Fund Industry's Biggest Cheerleader". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 5, 2015.
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“If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.”
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“Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent”
Source : Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1871). “The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle”, p.355
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“Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.”