"Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible."

-- Mikhail Botvinnik

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“I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.”

Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.5, Beacon Press
“I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.”
“â€¦Itâ€™s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.”
“[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean, he was not looking for a country called India. Europeans were calling that country Hindustan in 1492.... Columbus called the tribal people he met "Indio," from the Italian in dio, meaning "in God."”
“Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.”
“Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.”
“These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.”
“I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness ...”

Source : "Grasmere Journal," 15 Apr. 1802 SeeWilliamWordsworth 25

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