"In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings."

-- Bobby Fischer

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“There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.”

Source : JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”
“If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance”
“We English have sex on the brain. Not the best place for it, actually.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .”
“Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined.”
“There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.”
“To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.”

Source : "Movie 43 director tells critics to 'lighten up' after film bombs at box office" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2013.

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