"I don't want to be married just to be married. ..."

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Mary Ann Shaffer

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“I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.”

Source : "Tendulkar leaving the youngsters behind - Harbhajan". www.espncricinfo.com. April 24, 2010.
“Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of 'forced' saving.”
“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously...”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.143, Everyman's Library
“Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.”
“Whenever reality reinforces a child's fantasied dangers, the child will have more difficulty in overcoming them...So, while parents may not regard a spanking as a physical attack or an assault on a child's body, the child may regard it as such, and experience it as a confirmation of his fears that grown-ups under certain circumstances can really hurt you.”
“Yeah, I'm a giver. I've learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves.”
“Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.”
“To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off”

Source : Maurice Blondel, Oliva Blanchette (2004). “Action (1893): essay on a critique of life and a science of practice”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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