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Raymond Chandler quote: "Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence..."

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

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Be composed--be at ease with me--I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you. Walt Whitman
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Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to. Jeanette Winterson
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The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies. Martin Van Buren
We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die. Chuck Klosterman
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This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are. Artur Davis
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind. Michael Jordan
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People will feel the way they feel. LL Cool J
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones. Jennifer Weiner
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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. Mark Twain
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[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste. Aldous Huxley