"Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder."

-- Hans Ree

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“Beaten paths are for beaten men.”

Source : "Speaker's encyclopedia of stories, quotations, and anecdotes" by Jacob Braude, 1955.
“I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 15, 2010
“Why look worse when you can look better?”
“Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.”
“If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' Ãªtre, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.”

Source : "Gestalt Psychology". Book by Wolfgang Köhler, p. 32, 1930.
“To take a stand for the future is to bring forth an opportunity not borne of the path we've taken in the past, but borne of a vision which we would create for ourselves.”
“In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.”
“For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am.”

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