"The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Kenneth Rogoff

#Player Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Argentina Quotes

“Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.”
“I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.”
“That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.”
“If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.”
“The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.”

Source : Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.13, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Throughout my life, I have always lived with adversity and will continue to have faith and do good for my family, friends and fans.”
“We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.”
“When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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