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“I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.”
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“I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.”
Source : Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.154, U of Nebraska Press
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“[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.”
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“Every year is vital in the life of a child.”
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“If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.”
Source : Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books
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“If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.”
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“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
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“You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.”