"Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free."

-- Adlai Stevenson I

#Strength Quotes #Being Strong Quotes #Lying Quotes

“In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.”
“When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.”
“What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If Im in a good mood, its got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When Im down, I might find something that I havent worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.”
“Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.”
“To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.”
“That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
“By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority . . .”
“New things cannot come where there is no room.”

Source : Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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