"If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of bliss for the rest of the game. If, on the other hand, Bronstein thinks for forty minutes about his first move, then time trouble is inevitable."

-- Alexander Kotov

#Time Quotes #Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You really have to wonder how long it will take for Tea Party devotees to realize just how badly they are being used.”

Source : "Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions". www.forbes.com. February 18, 2011.
“Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.”

Source : "Babylon calling". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.
“Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.”
“From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.”
“The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.”
“Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
“Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.”
“We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us.”

Source : Bernal Diaz del Castillo (2003). “The Conquest of New Spain”, p.159, Penguin UK

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