George Koltanowski Quotes
Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess
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Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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I'm a wandering gypsy.
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I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
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There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.
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I feel like sarcasm is important in a relationship.
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Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
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Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.
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My wife and I water color, paint water colors.
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You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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I don't take pictures when I'm with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It's important when you're as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you're with them, and nothing compromises that. I've been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.
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We mute the realization of malevolence - which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.
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Men of patriarchal cultures have been committing heinous acts in the name of their God ever since they created a god for themselves. It seems that the earlier, goddess-oriented, nature-centered religions were far less cruel.
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Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess
