"I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back."

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Source : "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com.

Anatoly Karpov

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“The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea.”
“Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .”
“I found it easy to produce. I'm not the musical guy. I can't read and play music like that, but put some drums and a sample in front of me and I can whip it up nice, and I'll work out some keys and find some interesting instruments to put under it.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I'm all right. I'm good. There has been better times, but I'll be okay.”
“I answered her spiritually. And that is where Oprah [Winfrey]comes from. She comes from a place of the truth within her. And I think that's why we clicked. And I think that's why we still continue to click.”
“It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.”

Source : "Quantum Theory at the Crossroads: Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference". Book by Guido Bacciagaluppi and Antony Valentini, Cambridge University Press, p. 346, 2009.
“We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.”
“The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”

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