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“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
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“I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
“The most complicated skill is to be simple.”
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“Kotov’s emphasis on the im portance of planning was clearly in spired by communist ideology. In the attitude of ‘better a bad plan than no plan at all’ there’s a spark of the old socialist heroism visible – here they go, the workers united under the red banner, maybe their plan is not the best, but they sure have a plan!”
― Move First, Think Later: Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess
― Move First, Think Later: Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess
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