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“I was never happy that my injuries cut my career short and ultimately forced my decision to step away from tennis. I have enjoyed my time away from the court, a period that has allowed me to experience a different side of life. However, I miss the game and the challenge of competing at the highest level of tennis, and I want to gauge whether I can stay healthy and compete against today's top players.”

“The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.”

Ifs Knows Trying Self Order Wonderful Periods Highest Abuse Pastor Perfectionism

Author:Ashley Judd

“Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.”

Source: The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

“The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.”

States Growth Periods Taxes Highest Rate Income Faster Zero Revenue Income Tax

Author:Arthur Laffer

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.”

People Ifs Two Lying Purpose Opportunity Periods Solitude Highest Tasks Crowds Indifference Isolation Providing Love And Friendship

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters