Howard Staunton Quotes
The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.
Howard Staunton
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
Karen Armstrong
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
Oprah Winfrey
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
Ian Caldwell
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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
Om Puri
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It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
Yann Martel
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
Walter Mosley
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
S. D Gordon
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The capacity for judgment, to make plans, to choose one’s good, is what we share with other persons. It is what makes us persons.
Charles Fried
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The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.
Howard Staunton
