"Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too."

-- Mikhail Botvinnik

#Retirement Quotes #Gone Quotes #Chess Quotes

“Nature is harmony in discord.”
“China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity,”
“Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
“I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.”

Source : "The Life and Times of Glenn Gould". Documentary, March 13, 1998.
“Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.”
“The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.”
“The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.”

Source : "Rowan Atkinson: we must be allowed to insult each other". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2012.
“Life is being, not having.”

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