"The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have."

-- Isaac Asimov

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“I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.”
“Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)”
“The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.”
“The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!”

Source : Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited
“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”
“I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.”
“If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.”
“Bliss is not subtractbale.”

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