"No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth."

-- Vasily Smyslov

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“A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]”
“I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.”
“Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.”
“Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.”
“I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.”
“One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain your evaluation of that evidence.”
“Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “The Potter's Field”, p.62, Head of Zeus
“... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.299, Macmillan

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