"Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“We need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.”

Source : "The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland".
“Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.”

Source : Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.”
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
“I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect.”

Source : "Transcript: 020: Rameet Chawla: Tech Founder". "Prologue Profiles" with Dan Feld, prologueprofiles.com. September 26, 2012.
“Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and confidently with the knowledge that the same Spirit that inspired Jesus is inspiring us.”
“Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.”
“The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.”

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