#ura

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

Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#drowsiness #funny #funny

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doing #far #force #law #man

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#all things #courage #first #quality #things

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works. ↗

— Jones Very

#almost #existence #instinctively #labors #life

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#cultural #dominates #ground #ground zero #groups

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#american taxpayer #debtors #economy #encouraging #help

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#jurassic #kind #publishing

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. ↗

— Paul Coffey

#better #get #good #hard #natural