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Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#confused #constituted #delicate #discouraged #distinctions

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. ↗

— Steven Chu

#details #efficient #efficient way #focus #i

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#decide #friends #hate #i #killed

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#others #quickly #shed #tear #troubles

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#anybody #because #conversations #else #field

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#exactly #find #instance #kind #language

But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#came #i #right #right thing #same

Cary and I are working together on another movie, Charlotte's Web. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#cary #charlotte #i #movie #together

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#live #power #then #wishes

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. ↗