"At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake."

-- John Newcombe

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“Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.”

Source : Joshua Meyrowitz (1986). “No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior”, p.40, Oxford University Press
“The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 615-17, when Comte de Provence (1783). Impromter sur nos decouverte aerostatiques. Year of the aeronautical experiments of the brothers Montgolfier, Pilatre de Rozier, and Marquis d'Arlandes, 1922.
“I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars.”

Source : "The Mouse that Roared". Book by Leonard Wibberley, p. 145, 1983.
“Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?”
“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.”
“That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.”
“I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top.”
“Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.”

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