"I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book."

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Jose Raul Capablanca

#Book Quotes #Games Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.”
“The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.”
“Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.”

Source : "Timothy Geithner’s Legacy". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2013.
“[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.”
“Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else.”
“Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.13, Granta Books
“Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.”
“In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes”

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