"Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?"

-- Nancy Mitford

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“As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.”

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“Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.”
“I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.”

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“My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.”
“Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.”
“There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.”
“When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.”
“I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.”

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