To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
—Anatol Rapoport
Conflict… is a theme that has occupied the thinking of man more than any other, save only God and love.
—Anatol Rapoport
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
—Anatol Rapoport
Topics: Competition
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