"Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely."

-- Adlai Stevenson I

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“Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has remarkable characteristics which compel respect and occasionally surprise the most wary players.”

Source : Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.44, Courier Corporation
“I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.”
“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”

Source : Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin
“Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.”
“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.”
“How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.”

Source : Diary entry in 1898. "Painting in the Twentieth Century, an Analysis of the Artists and Their Work". Book by Werner Haftmann, p. 82, 1966.
“It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.”
“Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.”

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