"I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won."

-- Harry Golombek

#Success Quotes #Queens Quotes #Player Quotes

“Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.”
“Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.”
“The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.”
“Yeah, I am in love. I'm definitely in love. She picked me up in a bar, actually. She walked by and just looked at me and smiled and I went 'Hey' and she goes, 'Hey'. I was just like, 'Oh my God', she took my breath away.”
“nice is such a rip-off.”

Source : Marvin Cohen, J. Gilhooley, M. Pinero, David Rabe, Ntozake Shange (1986). “Plays from the New York Shakespeare Festival”, Broadway Play Publishing
“All the Americans in the study were native born, but the height of the mother does affect the growth potential of the child. So, there is a second generation effect. But this can explain only a small portion of the height difference between Americans and northern Europeans. Regarless of continent of origin, children who grow up under conditions of good health and nutrition are about the same height, on average.”
“The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.”

Source : "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.
“Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.”

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