William Hartston Quotes
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.
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There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.
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I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.
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I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen; I can visualise it through them.
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Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
