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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
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When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
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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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The Olympics are only once every four years, so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.
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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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He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.
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In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.
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My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type - and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child.
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So far there is no evidence for increased chance of human-to-human transmission.
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Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess