"The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions."

-- Emanuel Lasker

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“People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 06, 2010.
“The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.”
“An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. ... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.”
“There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves.”
“Someone with inborn talent isn't happy. It's those who have worked hard for someone precious to them and who can be hot-blooded that are happy." -Gai Sensei: Naruto Episode 196”
“In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: â€˜like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian craneâ€¦and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.â€™ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.”
“On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.”
“The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear. The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.”

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