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Chess Player Inspirational Quotes (2575)

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'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
Benjamin Franklin
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[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by bluffing. There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end. Things are currently the other way around in Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever.
Garry Kasparov
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
Magnus Carlsen
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Nothing preaches better than the act.
Benjamin Franklin
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Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!
Aleister Crowley
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It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory.
Aleister Crowley
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There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.
Garry Kasparov
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I really enjoy the experience of playing humans. The psychological game is so much more important.
Magnus Carlsen
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With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.
Garry Kasparov
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I think she always nursed a small mad hope.
Vladimir Nabokov
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My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.
Arnon Goldfinger
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You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one
Mikhail Tal
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
Bobby Fischer
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There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.
Viswanathan Anand
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The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
Aleister Crowley
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
Bobby Fischer
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But in my arms she was always Lolita.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.
Aleister Crowley
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
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Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
Benjamin Franklin
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Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.
Vladimir Nabokov
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