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Extremely boring. Drones on and on about minor or irrelevant details. Assumes extensive knowledge of the events and personalities of the period. Even worse, the prose is terrible. There's one paragraph that starts on the third line of page 54 and doe
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This is stupid. Capablanca explained exactly why he advocated studying endgames, and it had nothing to do with availability of material.
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“In 1999, USA Today analyzed the statistical link between CAFE standards and traffic fatalities and reported that “46,000 people have died in crashes they would have survived in bigger, heavier cars…since 1975.”32”
― Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
― Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
“One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”
― The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side
― The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side
“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a
different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.”
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different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.”
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“They are for ‘freedom’ when it is freedom to kill third-term fetuses or engage in same-sex marriages or stuff coke up their noses; they do not define freedom as anything to do with captive peoples around the world having the chance to escape the tyrannies that constrain them. They like Fidel because he is a thorn in America’s side and a sort of dime-store existentialist, and they rhapsodize about his spreading of literacy in Cuba without considering the fact that at the same time that he teaches people to read he tortures writers like Armando Valladares whose books he doesn’t like.”
― The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings
― The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings
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My comment quite clearly was not about the validity (or lack thereof) of Capablanca's advise.
The author of this book claims "Had there been good b…