#chan

I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#fail #great #i #i think #just

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#facts #fortunes #losing #many #means

I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad. ↗

— Carmen Kass

#bad #blame #change #destroy #done

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. ↗

— Leon Kass

#cleverness #far #how #how far #limits

To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it! ↗

— Emerson Fittipaldi

#chance #doing #formula #god #going

Tell the facts even if the person doesn't want to hear them, if they don't like the facts than they can change them. ↗

— Trudy Shourt

#change

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology. ↗

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

#changed #just #most #rapid #technology

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#philosophy #political-science #wikileaks #change

Much of the mystery surrounding drug action can be cleared up by recognizing that drugs affect only the rate at which biologic functions proceed; they do not change the basic nature of existing processes or create new functions. ↗

— Robert Berkow

#medicine #change

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue ↗

— Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

#knowledge-of-the-self #knowledge-wisdom #lessons-in-life #lessons-learned #life