"Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization."

-- Samuel Reshevsky

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“I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed the mysterious ground substance where the secret mechanisms of cell life might be found.”
“The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.”
“Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by the yearnings of your heart, although its power and presentation is by grace, not by expectation, demand, or requirement. Love is the ultimate paradox, for it is the lamb that is also the lion. Love is the ultimate power, which resides in surrender.”
“A climate in which belief may flourish”
“Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.”
“No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .”

Source : Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.380, Syracuse University Press
“Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.”
“The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Sep 02, 2011

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