"In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me."

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Source : Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”

Stephen Potter

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“You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

Source : "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.
“A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.”
“As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their ownâ€¦women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.”
“One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."”
“Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim”
“If it were up to me we'd ban them all.”
“At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone.”

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