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Chess Player Inspirational Quotes (2575)

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Man is a tool-making animal
Benjamin Franklin
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
Stanley Kubrick
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In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Don't cry over spilled milk
Benjamin Franklin
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
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The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect.
Kenneth Rogoff
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An old man in a house is a good sign.
Benjamin Franklin
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Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.
Benjamin Franklin
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Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening
Mikhail Tal
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Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani leadership can capitalize indefinitely on this topic to underpin its legitimacy even in a situation in which democratic institutions are virtually eliminated.
Garry Kasparov
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One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
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Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.
Peter Thiel
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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
Emanuel Lasker
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Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
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Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.
Benjamin Franklin
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The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
Benjamin Franklin
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Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
Marcel Duchamp
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The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.
Aron Nimzowitsch
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley
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Chess is not for the faint-hearted it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
Bobby Fischer
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