"You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind."

-- Saint Basil

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“Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.”
“Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.”
“Peace at home, peace in the world.”
“If you have an advantage, you have to take advantage of it.”
“I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.”
“Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam. (4th February 1945)”
“I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker.”

Source : "Joel and Ethan Coen on how they turned Hollywood history into the hysterical ‘Hail, Caesar!’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. August 2, 2016.
“Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”

Source : Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

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