"As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent"

-- Jose Raul Capablanca

#Chess Quotes #Superiority Quotes

“Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.”
“Where sanity is there God is.”
“Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it.”
“It's just seems life without music would be death.”
“I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires. I was very sick, with chills and sweats, but against my better judgement I let them talk me into singing. Of course I gave the performance everything I had and my voice was hurt. It was scary at first, but fortunately there was no permanent damage. I just had to be patient and wait for the voice to return. It took six weeks of physical recuperation and it took time to recover my confidence as well.”
“We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.421, Psychology Press
“We must strive to become good ancestors.”

Source : "The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap". Book by Ralph Nader, 2004.

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