"To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame."

-- Jose Raul Capablanca

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“The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.”
“Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.”
“Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.”
“I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.”

Source : Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.244, University of Illinois Press
“The potential of a zero-risk is in every market, because eventually I think people will switch to these products as they become available. There are two unmet needs in smokers: something that is much better for my health and something that bothers others much less or doesn't bother them. These are things cigarettes can't resolve. These new products are developed to address these needs.”
“There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.”

Source : Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”
“Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.”
“O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.”

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