"The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix."

-- Vasily Smyslov

#Book Quotes #Learning Quotes #Self Quotes

“I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'”
“I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.”
“That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.”
“Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.”
“Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality”

Source : Alan D. Eames (2014). “The Secret Life of Beer!: Exposed: Legends, Lore & Little-Known Facts”, p.15, Storey Publishing
“C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.”
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”
“When the fighters are in the ring, they want to dictate the pace. I want to dominate, so I want to impose to the other fighter my actions.”

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