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All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Carlo M. Cipolla

If you see me playing a $1/$2 no-limit on PokerStars, I'm probably experimenting with something, trying something new seeing how it works.

Chris Moneymaker

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.

Chris Moneymaker

It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

Charles Studd

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

Harry Seidler

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

Howard Staunton

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.

Howard Staunton

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

Howard Staunton

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

Ina Garten

The angel of death can hardly have friends. And the prom, what about Danny? He can hardly have a Valkyrie for his date.

Jacques Antoine

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

James Boswell

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

James Bovard

How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?

James Bovard

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

John Burdett

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

John Burdett

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

John Burdett

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

Jack Canfield

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

Jack Canfield

No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.

Jack Canfield

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

Jane Welsh Carlyle