"You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch."

-- Viswanathan Anand

#Personality Quotes #World Quotes #Chess Quotes

“Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.”
“Poets are the sense, philosophersÂÂ the intelligenceÂÂ of humanity.”
“My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.”
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
“It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.”
“I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to a very great fallacy - the almost pathetic belief of some Foreign Ministers - that, if they had lunch with someone and called him by his Christian name, they have changed the fundamental facts of relationship between nations.”
“I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or Mohammed.”

Source : "Rasmussen 'to give Turkey senior posts in Nato'" by Bruno Waterfied, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 6, 2009.
“...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”

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