"Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate."

-- Stephen Fry

#Civilization Quotes #World Quotes #Destruction Quotes

“Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.”

Source : "How to Open a Chess Game". Book by Larry Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1974.
“Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?”
“I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.”
“You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.”
“The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.”
“Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.”

Source : A History of Europe ch. 1 (1935)
“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
“The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.”

Source : E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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