"Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary."

--

Jose Raul Capablanca

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“I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we pay a heavy price for our convictions. This is a human issue as well as a writing issue - at least in the personal essay as I practice it. Any real essayist knows that certainty is an editorial decision, arrived at not through conviction but through suppression, the denial of a whole range of possibilities, of alternatives that we jettison, sometimes necessarily, in order to steady the ship.”

Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
“I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.”
“When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?”
“she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant”
“Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.”

Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.181, Penguin
“Dreams can be any size you want them to be. But the important thing is that you have one that is yours.”

Source : Martin Pistorius (2011). “Ghost Boy”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
“Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans.”

Source : "US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.
“We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United States to stop its support to Israel.”

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