"The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics."

-- Edwin Percy Whipple

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“For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.”
“Culture, which by definition serves no purpose, has now found a role as the consort of business. Right off the bat we have a beached whale, since there is nothing that disdains culture as much as business does. ... In fact, 'corporate culture' is nothing more than the crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment.”
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.”
“I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”
“An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.”
“I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.”

Source : "Journalist kidnapped in Somalia: Reunion with mom 'felt like home'" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.
“Never let the other fellow set the agenda.”

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