"Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again."

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Alexander Alekhine

#Genius Quotes #World Quotes #Chess Quotes

“I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.”
“The storytelling ... is kind of amazing.”
“Dance expresses joy better than anything else.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.”
“You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own superior inner resources.”
“Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.”
“Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not a testable conclusion. Put hunches, gut feelings, and intuitions into the suggestion box. Let empiric methods shake out the good from bad suggestions.”

Source : Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.170, Macmillan
“You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there”

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