"[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."

-- George Bernard Shaw

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“Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.”
“If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.”

Source : Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.247, Open Road Media
“You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.”
“The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and tell a story while using no time cuts, no flashbacks, nothing but pure real time just seemed too difficult.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my action.”
“Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood”
“I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture.Â I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.”

Source : Saul Leiter, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (2008). “Saul Leiter”, Steidl / Edition7L
“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”

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