Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.


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His office seemed cluttered and disorderly, but if he needed to find something, he knew exactly wher...
HERBERT STEINER
The discovery opened up a whole new field of physics and expanded our understanding of particle phys...
HERBERT STEINER
If the referendum passes, we'll have new acquisitions, new books on the shelves, and our Sunday hour...
JANET STEINER
The library has a lot resting on this election.
JANET STEINER
People will look at the turnout and say ?What message is that sending?? Do we have a positive suppor...
JANET STEINER
The guilt you feel for your fortune is tremendous.
HEATHER STEINER
We're living in a Third World country right now.
HEATHER STEINER
EBay makes a lot of money from a lot of small, unhappy transactions.
INA STEINER
They will walk you through the entire process, from the picture to the shipping.
INA STEINER
EBay makes a lot of money from a lot of small unhappy transactions. If you've lost a few thousand do...
INA STEINER
a bit too compact.
MICHAEL STEINER
I'm coming back with enough time left in the season to make a difference. And beating a team like [M...
MEGHAN STEINER
Every man is a history of the world to himself
MAX STEINER
You try to preach to the guys that we need a good look every time down the court, but when the game'...
TRENT STEINER
When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches, HELEN STEINER RICE
A Mother's love is something
that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sa...
HELEN STEINER RICE
A mother's love is like an island
In life's ocean vast and wide,
A peaceful, quiet shelter HELEN STEINER RICE
Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to acce...
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER
My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She w...
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER
Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, i...
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER
My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the l...
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER
Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive ...
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER
Working moms elevate themselves above stay-at-home moms, and stay-at-home moms try to put down worki...
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER
When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart
And your plans are upset and your world ...
HELEN STEINER RICE
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE
My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA