"Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing."

-- Garry Kasparov

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“The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Oct 12, 2012
“Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.”
“I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.”
“I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.”
“Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.”
“Make your best thoughts into action.”
“With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.”
“Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.”

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