"The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."

-- Paul Morphy

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“I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.”
“Those that are afraid to buy are always afraid to sell.”
“Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.”
“I just think I just noticed that when I was working on other people's music I found myself missing a bit of the total control I had doing my own.”
“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”
“I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.”
“Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.”
“Exploitation is an abuse of power, an act of domination driven by basic insecurity. I think all hierarchies create opportunities for that. Donald Trump is an extreme illustration of an otherwise normal tendency. Institutions are supposed to have safeguards to prevent or mitigate the tendency. Instead they often become vehicles for abuse.”

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