"All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis."

-- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

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“I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.”
“Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.”
“At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.”
“Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.”
“Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.”
“Modesty is the citadel of beauty.”
“But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.”
“That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.”

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