"It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it."

-- Pope Benedict XVI

#People Quotes #Doctrine Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.”
“On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years, dates from the moment when the soft hand of Mr. Van Buren touched Mrs. Eaton's knocker.'”
“I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.”
“Like MoliÃ¨re's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole's The Mathematical Analysis of Logic.”
“Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.”
“I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.”
“It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.”

Source : Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.68, Courier Corporation
“I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed”

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