"You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday."

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Miep Gies

#Hero Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1872). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.40
“I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.”
“You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.”
“Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.”
“I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.”
“Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.”

Source : Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”
“The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.33, Da Capo Press
“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”

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