"... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him - the harsh, prickly relations with his opponent that were characteristic of all Botvinnik's matches."

-- Gennadi Sosonko

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“The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.”
“I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman.”
“Awards that ignore me are losers.”
“Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."”

Source : "Ken Burns to Stanford Grads: Trump Is 'an Insult to Our History'". time.com. June 13, 2016.
“It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.”
“If you can do any favor for yourself, if you want to understand yourself, if you really want to build anything for yourself, try to make a plan to have a cozy home and a cozy partner. When even God may leave you, your partner should not-that kind of partner; a partner who does not know how to part. If your partner knows that he can part, he does not yet have the power to unite.”
“History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.”
“I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.”

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