"Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas."

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Source : José Raúl Capablanca (1947). “Hundred Best Games of Chess”

Jose Raul Capablanca

#Struggle Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.”
“It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.”
“You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.”
“If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.”
“There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.”
“I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.”

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