"I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation."

-- Viswanathan Anand

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“However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast attached to the neck of living prey. This is not an idly chosen figure of speech. War spreads and perpetuates itself through a dynamic that often seems independent of human will. It has, as we like to say of things we do not fully understand, 'a life of its own.”
“It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.”
“Whatever you think is delusion.”

Source : Dainin Katagiri (1988). “Returning to Silence”, Shambhala Publications
“Life is a death-defying experience.”

Source : Edna Buchanan (2014). “The Britt Montero Series (Omnibus Edition)”, p.618, Diversion Books
“I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.”
“Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.”

Source : "Inferior Religions" by Wyndham Lewis, 1917.
“Along with the talent, you also need direction.”
“Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet, when your ears come upon the truth, the facts of life, you hide your faces and cry, not able”

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