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Chess Player Inspirational Quotes (2575)

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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
Aleister Crowley
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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley
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If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Aleister Crowley
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Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
William Hartston
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It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.
Aleister Crowley
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
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Chess is a test of wills.
Paul Keres
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You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
Vladimir Nabokov
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...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.
Jon Speelman
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There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Benjamin Franklin
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The world is run by the people who show up.
Benjamin Franklin
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I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
Benjamin Franklin
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Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
Peter Thiel
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
Boris Becker
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Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
Marcel Duchamp
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There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.
Aleister Crowley
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However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick
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You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.
Peter Thiel
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If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin
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All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Benjamin Franklin
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If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be accused of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.
Garry Kasparov
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