"Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable."

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Source : Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

Leonid Shamkovich

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“We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.”
“No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does”
“Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.”
“I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money.”
“Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.”

Source : "McConnell to Obama: Debt limit fallout all yours". www.arkansasonline.com. July 14, 2011.
“A person's wound is where their passion is born.”
“Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. Itâ€™s just wide open. Thatâ€™s because the essence of mind is empty. Itâ€™s wide open and free”
“The four eaglets are my four sons who cease not to persecute me even unto death. The youngest of them, whom I now embrace with so much affection, will sometime in the end insult me more grievously and more dangerously than any of the others.”

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