"Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!"

-- Aron Nimzowitsch

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“I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.”
“Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.”
“My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not so much that it happened relatively late in human history, but that it happened at all.”

Source : Jack Goody (1975). “Literacy in Traditional Societies”, p.38, Cambridge University Press
“I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.”
“There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.”

Source : "How to Fly a Horse — The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery". Book by Kevin Ashton, www.businessinsider.com. January 20, 2015.
“Paris is always a good idea.”
“In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.”

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