"I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the total. I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of the older generation, from whose games we learned, the aesthetic side was the most important. -"

-- Alexander Kotov

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“When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.”
“Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?”

Source : Henry Theophilus Finck (1887). “Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations, Historic and National Peculiarities”
“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”
“As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“The real battle is in choosing in the edit room. It's in how you contextualize information.”
“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Things of the Mind”
“I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.”
“I certainly do all sorts of work. I'm very, very blessed to do drama and other types of television, and things like that, but I always go back to sci-fi, whenever possible, because that's really exciting for me.”

Source : "Gina Holden Talks Syfy’s JULES VERNE'S MYSTERIOUS ISLAND and FRINGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 13, 2012.

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