"When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play."

-- Vladimir Kramnik

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“Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions”

Source : Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.319, Wayne State University Press
“To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.”
“Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.”
“I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.”
“But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose), has recourse to the first Cause but for its general and ordinary Support and Influence, whereby it preserves Matter and Motion from Annihilation or Desition; and in explicating particular phenomena, considers onely the Size, Shape, Motion, (or want of it) Texture, and the resulting Qualities and Attributes of the small particles of Matter.”
“I have a theory about soul mates -- that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.”
“All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.”
“I don't think that we are capable of anything like this many possible colour responses. Instead I argue that the perception of colour differences between two surfaces viewed side-by-side is a gestalt phenomenon.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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