(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.

... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

When we place ourselves in a position of judgment, then we turn ourselves into oppressors. Healthy self-esteem cannot exist side-by-side with oppression of any kind.

It's quite unfortunate how some people would like you when you are barely making ends meet, but would hate you with a passion if you start to do well.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness.

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.