"When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle."

-- David R. Brower

#People Quotes #Being Real Quotes #Trying Quotes

“In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.”

Source : Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited
“Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing”
“I prize the privilege of being alone.”
“Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains”
“I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.”
“Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.”
“I still recall the day when I became known not just as Gay Brewer, but 'Gay Brewer, winner of the 1967 Masters.' The reality of the title â€“ the biggest thrill I've had in golf â€“ is something that can never be taken away.”
“Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!”

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