"Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess."

-- Emanuel Lasker

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“While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria â€“ half a world away from the United States â€“ more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United Statesâ€™ southern border, Mexico will affect Americaâ€™s destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East.”
“They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me”
“Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.”

Source : William McIlvanney (2013). “Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)”, p.157, Canongate Books
“Offness yields a hypnotic effect. The brain can see simplistic patterns that lock and it's boring after a while. I don't cater to that.”
“He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.”
“All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.”
“When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.”
“We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.”

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