"Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance."

-- Richard Reti

#Fighting Quotes #Games Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“I come from a military family.”
“There are very few people in our society who are actually free to say what they believe. I am in an extremely fortunate position in having this enormous gift of freedom and believe I should try to use it to do something useful for society. As long as I feel as if I have something to say, I'll continue to try to do that.”
“THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.”
“I'm a whisper in water.”

Source : Song: Bachelorette, Album: Homogenic, 1997
“In every failure lies the seeds of success.”
“What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passionâ€”romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.76, Oxford University Press
“Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
“Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?”

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