"I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did."

-- Andrew Young

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“Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.”

Source : "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, 1961.
“I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.”

Source : "Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo talk The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 12, 2004.
“No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.”
“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”

Source : "The benefits of internet innovation are hard to spot in GDP statistics" by Joseph Stiglitz, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2014.
“If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.”
“How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own.”

Source : Howard Jacobson (2011). “Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It”, p.101, Bloomsbury Publishing
“War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.”
“Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.”

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