"Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess."

-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Thinking Quotes #Winning Quotes #Chess Quotes

“Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.”
“I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.”
“It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.”

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company
“Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.”

Source : Iris Murdoch (1987). “The Unicorn”, p.76, Penguin
“Cat's eyes seem a bridge to a world beyond the one we know.”
“We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.”
“For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.”
“The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and sufferings in this world, but that there should be law and order, beauty and joy, goodness and love. The idea of God that humans have in their being is the wonder of all wonders. They have felt in the depths of their lives that what appears as imperfect is the manifestation of the perfect; just as a person who has an ear for music realized the perfection of a song, while in fact he or she is only listening to a succession of notes.”

Source : "Man and God: Passages Chosen and Arranged to Express a Mood about the Human and the Divine".

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