"Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there were books on chess and so I take this book out and I'm like this is going to be cool, I'm going to whoop on this guy now, so I studied the book and I go back and the guy crushes me again."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Maurice Ashley

#Crush Quotes #Book Quotes #School Quotes

“New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.”
“Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.”
“The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.”
“Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.”

Source : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press
“The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.38
“Yeah my money's so tall that my Barbie's gotta climb it”
“My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.”
“Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.”

Source : James J. Hill (2001). “Highways of Progress”, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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