"How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre."

-- Aron Nimzowitsch

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“The future of American film lies on television.”
“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.”
“Architects cannot teach nature anything.”
“I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.”

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“Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.”
“I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.”
“The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.”
“Make music that you truly enjoy and it shows.”

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