"Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician."

-- Raymond Keene

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“Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
“The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job”
“There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.”
“For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.”
“The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.”
“There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.”
“In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.”

Source : Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.108, Canongate Books
“I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.”

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