"The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board."

-- Efim Geller

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“I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.”

Source : "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.
“I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my (teaching) degree and then I'll see what happens, but I'll always have that to fall back on.' So if anybody were to look at me and say, 'Oh, you're an actor,' I could always say, 'Hey man, I'm a teacher!'”
“What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.”
“Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.”

Source : John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.98, Pan Macmillan
“As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.”
“So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn quite hides in smoke and haze; The place we occupy seems all the world.”
“History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.”

Source : Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage
“Dogs make good pets because they are very loyal”

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