"Chess is 99 percent calculation."

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Andrew Soltis

“Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 10, 2014
“...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting”
“The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.”

Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 31, 1954.
“All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.”
“I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever”
“If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.”
“It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.”
“We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.”

Source : Simon Pegg (2010). “Nerd Do Well”, p.153, Random House

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