"You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go."

-- Hans Berliner

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“The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.”
“Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!”

Source : E. D. Baker (2010). “The Frog Princess”, p.74, A&C Black
“I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.”
“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486
“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
“But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, ... And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.”
“A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.”

Source : "Mickey Hart returns attention to world music". www.cnn.com. December 02, 1998.
“Bushido is all very well in its way, but it is no match for a 30-06.”

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