"Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him"

-- Fiorello H. La Guardia

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“We areÂ all creators. Whether orÂ not weÂ create isÂ not upÂ to us. WeÂ are human, andÂ creating isÂ what weÂ do. Every interaction, movement, andÂ decision isÂ creativity atÂ work. WeÂ are allÂ artists. WeÂ all order creation around usÂ into theÂ world that weÂ want toÂ make.”
“Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that, it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in, but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.”

Source : "Vishy Anand: 'I found Bobby Fischer surprisingly normal and calm'". Interview with Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.
“The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.”
“Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to please this aftermath of the book by knowledge that was more historical and psychological than literary and aesthetical.”
“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “The Leper Of Saint Giles”, p.212, Head of Zeus
“Living by synchronicity isn't merely about getting messages. It is about growing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and resonates in the world we inhabit, and how the world-behind-th e-world reveals itself by fluttering the veils of our consensual reality.”
“Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

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