"Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words."

-- Alexander Koblencs

#Battle Quotes #Chess Quotes #Typical Quotes

“I just had a wonderful life, and I couldn't ask for anything else.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I am inspired by many people. First and foremost, I'm inspired by my mother. She definitely helped her children to feel unconditional love and I want to be that same kind of mother.”
“Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]”
“A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.”
“It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.”

Source : Foreword to L. J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment (1958)
“[T]he vast regulatory structure the federal government has erected in the name of the commerce power cannot be ended overnight, in many cases, but the pretense that such programs are constitutional can be ended, even as the programs themselves are phased out over time.”
“Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.”
“Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.”

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