"The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it."

-- Mikhail Tal

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“Almost All Problem Areas Of Your Life Are Caused By Faulty Belief Systems. You Are The Cause Of Your Problems And You Are The Solution To Your Problems.”
“...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.”

Source : Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Unless you're God, you are never too "big" to be a fan.”
“I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.”
“The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.”

Source : Thomas Dubay (1981). “Happy Are You Poor”
“When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.”
“In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (1960). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom”
“We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.”

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