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Mikhail Tal:
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down.'


“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”
~ Simone de Beauvoir


"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
– FDR

"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country"
– JFK

“When one of us falters, we all falter. When one of us rises, we all rise.”
– Barack Obama

"Quiet, piggy!"
– Trump


I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

Robert Redford

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Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something.

Robert Redford



A Tribute to Robert Redford


"Politics is like sausage: if you knew how it is made, you wouldn't eat it."

Bismarck


If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

~ Peter Ustinov
English actor & author (1921 - 2004)


Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not his greed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi


The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~ Isaac Asimov


Life is like a sewer--what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

-- Tom Lehrer


@Suzianne said
The most dangerous thing about bows is that they are virtually silent.

This is good if you are shooting it, not good if you are being shot at.
But what if one is just bowing?


@rookie54 said
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not his greed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi
Strangely, sometime in the 21st century this one might still turn out to be relevant:

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"

-- William Blake


"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet, just because there's a quote and a famous name."


-- Thomas Jefferson



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"The errors of religion are dangerous; those of philosophers, merely ridiculous."


-- David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature

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