Harare Institute Quotes

#1. You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness or slowness, but the employment of a basic endgame principle which is 'Do not hurry'.

Alexander Kotov

#2. CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

Nancy Pearcey

#4. By definition, half the people leaving the courtroom are unhappy. Any good judge can make more than half the people unhappy. The job is not to make people like you or make people think you're their friend.

Steven Pacey

#5. In an era that exalts individual autonomy above all other values, the state as a practical matter has long since forfeited its authority to command citizens to defend the nation.

Andrew J. Bacevich

#6. You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.

Zig Ziglar

#7. The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values. The cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. And if the cross has not done that, you're not a Christian!

Albert Martin

#8. Anybody who understands what goes on during a police interrogation asks for a lawyer and shuts up,

James Duane

#9. I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

Adelaide Kane

#10. Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Steve Goodier

#11. It was as hard to comprehend that your life would never end as it was to comprehend that it would.

Cassandra Clare

#12. The way to be a bore is to say everything.

Voltaire

#13. In the 1960s, the Stanford historian Peter Laslett did a careful study of British marriage records and found that at no time in the recorded past did people regularly marry at very early ages. Between 1619 and 1660, for instance, 85 percent of women were nineteen

Bill Bryson

#14. I think the main thing that affected my comedy was that my dad slept in a nightgown for most of my childhood. And it was just very funny every single night and made me realize that laughter is fun and nightgowns are cool.

Jenny Slate

#15. g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois

Debois