"A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart."

-- Sarah Josepha Hale

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“When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.21
“This attitude means you haven't met a girl worthy of your attention. You'll want to get caught if the right girl comes along.”
“The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.”
“Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.”
“I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.”
“Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.”
“Thereâ€™s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. Thereâ€™s also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didnâ€™t turn out half bad either.”
“We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.”

Source : Li Hongzhi, Hongzhi Li (2001). “Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teachings of Falun Gong”, Fair Winds Press

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