Garry Kasparov Quotes
If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.
Garry Kasparov
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It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.
J. B. Priestley
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
Edgar Degas
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Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.
Octavia E. Butler
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Peter Sissons: The single currency, a United States of Europe, was all that in your mind when you took Britain in?Edward Heath: Of course, yes.
Edward Heath
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Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.
Cyril Connolly
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The key points in my life as a kid were so scattered that I was most comfortable in, like, airports.
Uffie
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
Yitzhak Shamir
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And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them or melt them or make them overflow. We can't flood them or blow them up or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching for them.
Laurie Anderson
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I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.
Bill Withers
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If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.
Garry Kasparov