"There is only one type of story in the world-your story."

“Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the greatest dilution, for in general there is little to make with watery solutions.”

“There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.”

“It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.”

Source : Letter to T. Attwood, October 1831, after the rejection in the House of Lords of the Reform Bill (7 October 1831)

“I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.”

“Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.”

“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.”

“The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.”

“When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?”

Source : "Phife Dawg: Farewell to the Five-Foot Assassin With the Roughneck Business" by Sarah Larson, www.newyorker.com. March 23, 2016.