"A knight ending is really a pawn ending."

-- Mikhail Botvinnik

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“We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.”

Source : "At the Top: An interview with Jens Stoltenberg". Interview in Torgrim Eggen, 2001.
“Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.”
“Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.”
“English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in English because it's the language in between. I speak Finnish, I speak French, so I'll write songs in English because that's the music I listen to. I learned so much poetry and the poetic way of expressing myself is in English.”
“I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.”
“As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.”
“Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.”

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