"The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist."
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"Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?"
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"How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it."
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"What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing."
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"If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry."
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"But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear."
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"I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul"
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"First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms."
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"You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does"
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"My Lord does not want to know what I have done for Him. He just wants to know how I am. If he hears from me that I am happy, then he himself becomes exceedingly happy. In umistakable terms He tells me that my happiness is His real and only Satisfaction."
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"There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness."
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"True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind."
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"What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils."
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"God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever. When the vessel will become pure the urge for action coming from within will be a flawless, definitive action. As long as that does not happen one has to minimize one's activities."
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"The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time."
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"The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does not diminish them or add to them; it neither trims what seems necessary now grafts things superfluous . . . but it devotes all its diligence to one aim: To treat tradition faithfully and wisely; to consolidate and to strengthen what already was clear; and to guard what already was confirmed and defined."
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"There is something about a well-fitted modern jacket that feels like armor. If it's cut well, it adds a dose of cool to anything you wear it with and does the heavy lifting when it comes to creating a flattering shape."
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"But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow."
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"The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you."
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"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"
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