"I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them."

-- Nigel Short

#Learning Quotes #Play Quotes #Guy Quotes

“[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group
“The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.”
“I do as much comedy as I possibly can but Iâ€™m basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions,”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.”

Source : Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.37, A&C Black
“You couldn't be a racist and live in L.A.; you'd be exhausted.”
“Might let him take it home and slaughter that/ He got friends for all of my friends/ They ain't leaving 'till we say when/ And we gon' hangover the next day.”
“Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.”
“In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break.”

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