"Botvinnik was a killer in chess."

-- Yuri Averbakh

#Chess Quotes #Killers Quotes

“I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them.”
“I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know it or not.”
“After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me.”

Source : Source: theatrenow.wordpress.com
“Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.”
“I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.”
“A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.”

Source : Bruce Catton (1984). “Bruce Catton's Civil War: three volumes in one”, Outlet
“By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.”

Source : "Speech to the National Convention". February 05, 1794.
“The existing American laws we use in a pinch just do not adequately protect artists or any other group of rental tenants. For example, artist certification. You can always get around that. Every society that does not want to really protect tenants' rights tries historic preservation. But that says nothing about the right of people to stay in their homes. It says that the building cannot be demolished. But it does not say who is allowed to live in the building.”

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