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- A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
- George Steiner
- An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Boxing is just show business with blood.
- Frank Bruno
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
- We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
- The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
- John le Carre (1931 - )
- Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
- Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
- Jimmy Breslin
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