"It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors."

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Source : Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Mark Dvoretsky

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“My point is pot is no more and probably less harmful than alcohol is. I don't understand the stigma of not legalizing marijuana. And I don't even smoke it. I don't understand why. I don't get it.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.”
“I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.”
“Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.”
“Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.”

Source : Isaiah Berlin (1991). “The crooked timber of humanity: chapters in the history of ideas”, Random House Inc
“Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?”
“The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.”

Source : Mike Lofgren (2012). “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted”, p.120, Penguin
“You just keep going. Nothing that isn't beautiful is worth slowing down for.”

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