"The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases."

-- Alexander Alekhine

#Communication Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Retreat Quotes

“Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.”
“Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.”
“People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.”
“Religion is not to go to God by forsaking the world but to find Him in it. Our faith is to believe in our essential oneness with Him. "God is in us and we in Him" must be made the most fundamental faith of all religions.”
“You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.”
“I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.”
“We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.”

Source : "The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day". Book by Dorothy Day, 1952.
“Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.”

Source : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.229

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