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“The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.”
― Paul Morphy

“A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!”
― Pablo de Sarasate

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

“It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle