"After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game"

-- Howard Staunton

#Games Quotes #Black Quotes #Trying Quotes

“In the end, no matter how my records are panned or praised, if there are kids and communities in developing nations that have improved living conditions and are finally getting access to things we all have a basic right to (clean water, education, healthcare) because I am able to advocate, raise awareness or funds in some small way, then my life has achieved something that in the end means far more than having the track or album of the moment.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“If you donâ€™t have fun, itâ€™s hard to do your best. Itâ€™s not going to be enjoyable.”
“You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.”
“In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.”
“Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
“My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.”
“I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.”

Source : "K’naan: Straight Outta Mogadishu". Interview with Eamon Kricher-Allen, www.motherjones.com. March 2009.
“Maybe it's every kid's dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And you don't even have to exercise or lift weights! It's great!”

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