"Life's too short for chess."

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Source : 1874 Our Boys.

Henry James Byron

#Life Is Short Quotes #Chess Quotes #Too Short Quotes

“What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know...I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people.”

Source : "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You".
“Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.”
“I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.”
“In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed.”
“For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame.”

Source : David Horowitz (2002). “How to beat the Democrats, and other subversive ideas”, Spence Pub
“Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand.”
“The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.”

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