Howard Staunton Quotes
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
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The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.
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However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
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It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.
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Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
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I don't see myself as a pop star, just a singer.
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I want to be a part of this organization, and I know the fans are a little harsh sometimes, but that's how it is here in New York, and I'm ready for it.
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All I've ever wanted is to be normal.
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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
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The events leading to the discovery of tunnelling supercurrents took place while I was working as a research student at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Brian Pippard.
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There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations….What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.
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Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
