"It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists."

-- Alexander Kotov

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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
“I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair.”
“Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has no square root; thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference of a circle is to the diameter.”
“Hands have their own language.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.106, Oneworld Publications
“If you belong to a small country that is geopolitically not that important, or strategically not that important, you have no place among nations. Those countries are neglected and left to fend for themselves.”
“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”

Source : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.407, Wordsworth Editions
“We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.”
“There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.”

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