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“The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.”

Doe Pieces Higher Victim Cease Planes Boards Attacking

Book:The Perseids and Other Stories

Source: The Perseids and Other Stories

“What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.”

Different Seems Sound Levels Consciousness Quality Pieces Movement Higher Music Is Unique Unity Mythology Examination Occult Higher Level Baroque Baroque Music Vivaldi

Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.”

Ifs Needs Pieces Higher Luck Get Away Higher Ground

Author:George Saunders

“To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.”

Thinking Way Force Can Do Fiction Pieces Reader Higher Ideals Lays My Way Way Of Thinking

Author:Gene Stratton-Porter

“I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.”

Writing Long Lines Pieces Divine Higher Drawing Urges Monkeys

Book:The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber

Source: The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber

“There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.”

Kind Pieces Risk Higher Machines Patient Operations Stakes Organs Liver Kidneys Transplants Cadavers Dialysis

Author:John Roberts

“We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodomand Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.”

Past Pieces Happened Higher Activity Paper Consequence Envy Selling Eras Engaged Buying Imitation Feeding Trading Promoting Percentages Buying And Selling

Author:Charlie Munger

“My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper.”

Thinking Used Pieces Higher Paper Computer Standards Harder Used To Be Make Sense Print Scratches

Author:Dean Wareham