"Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic."

-- Mikhail Botvinnik

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“I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.”
“How are you going to protect me?? do you even know what it means to protect someone?? you think giving a crying person icecream is a way of comforting or protecting them?!?! you don't even know anything! you don't know how to love someone, you don't know how to show love, and you don't know what it means to protect someone. you hurt people without realizing it”
“Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.”
“Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breath and their water is safe to drink,”

Source : "Whitman Details Ongoing Agency Efforts To Monitor Disaster Sites, Contribute To Cleanup Efforts". yosemite.epa.gov. September 18, 2001.
“Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
“To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.”
“Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ole Golly". "Harriet the Spy", www.imdb.com. 1996.
“Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.”

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