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Donald Bradman

"About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult to come to terms with a life where old and valued friends insist on calling me 'Sir' instead of Don, simply because they think it is protocol. But I have consciously shouldered these burdens because I felt that I was the medium through which cricket could achieve a higher status and gain maximum support from the people, not only in Australia but throughout the world."

-- Donald Bradman

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“Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house.”

Source : Elizabeth David (1969). “French Country Cooking”
“I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.”
“What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.”
“Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.”
“The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.”
“Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.”

Source : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.92, Copper Canyon Press
“Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.”
“Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.”

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