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“The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.”
Source : Willard Fiske (1859). “The book of the first American chess congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay ; together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds”, p.16
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“Ignorance is not an extension of time”
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“Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate.”
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“What we experience in Colombia is fratricide, we fight ourselves and it demonstrates the priority of hatred over peace and reconciliation.”
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“There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!”
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“The body can do incredible things as long as the mind supports it.”
Source : "From Skinny to Spartacus". Interview with Jill Fanslaj, www.menshealth.com. December 21, 2011.
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“Life is a vacation God gives to you!”
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“Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.”
Source : George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.75, MIT Press