"It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned. Every player knows that all (or almost all) combinations arise from a recollection of familiar elements."

-- Richard Reti

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“Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.”
“To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.”
“The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.”
“I think faith can be anything. It can be believing in yourself, or if you believe there's a higher being that's watching over you.”
“The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid.”
“We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we" is not everybody on earth, or even most people, who've never thought about slavery much.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.”
“I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.”

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