Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
Nigel Short
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But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
Dana Rohrabacher
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I never was a very good singer.
Jackson Browne
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
Randeep Hooda
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
E. M. Forster
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Manuel Puig
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
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Young Joel Benenson supported - well, I - you know, look, I supported Bobby Kennedy, not Eugene McCarthy in '68. I mean, that's where I landed.
Joel Benenson
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There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'
Alexander Payne
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With climate change, we are living on borrowed time. If we do not address these issues today, it is going to be much more expensive later on, and that is why we need to take action now.
Johan Eliasch
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His words were simple words enough,And yet he used them so,That what in other mouths was roughIn his seemed musical and low.
James Russell Lowell
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Ὁ δίκαιος ἀταρακτότατος, ὁ δ᾽ ἄδικος πλείστης ταραχῆς γέμων.
Epicurus
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I think that I will continue being an active and restless soul. And I think that what I do which is to help people nurture their potential not only for themselves, but also for the world.
Kathy Eldon
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Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
Boris Spassky
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
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The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.
John Ruskin
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If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
Nigel Short
