Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.
I just loved and love life. I love it today.
Prior to and during [John] Locke's time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state began. The powers of both were often combined. As a result, churches frequently used the force of the state to promote and enforce their interests and doctrines. This caused horrendous atrocities against Jews and heretics, as well as the European religious wars between Catholics and Protestants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that resulted in the deaths of millions of people.
I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and sensitivity.
Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.
I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.
I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.
But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?
It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.