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“As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures, just as soon shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty but of crime.”
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“The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.”
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“There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.”
Source : David Bronstein, Jim Marfia (1979). “Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953”, p.305, Courier Corporation
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“There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.”
Source : T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.18, Psychology Press
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“How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.”
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“People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage.”
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“Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.”
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“I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.”
Source : "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.