"Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future."

-- Jose Raul Capablanca

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“What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.”
“I tend to like things that already exist.”
“There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.”
“The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.”
“I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.”
“The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.”

Source : John Marshall (1974). “The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, March 1814-December 1819”, The University of North Carolina Press
“Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.”

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