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Chess Player Inspirational Quotes (2575)

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin
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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
Emanuel Lasker
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A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
Benjamin Franklin
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People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
Benjamin Franklin
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Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
Benjamin Franklin
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The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
Marcel Duchamp
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India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.
Viswanathan Anand
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Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.
Nigel Short
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Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
Benjamin Franklin
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I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.
Viswanathan Anand
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When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.
Howard Staunton
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There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
Aleister Crowley
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I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.
Siegbert Tarrasch
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Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
Aleister Crowley
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Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
Benjamin Franklin
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin Franklin
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There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.
Alexander Kotov
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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
Benjamin Franklin
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
Benjamin Franklin
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
Bobby Fischer
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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp
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Help your pieces so they can help you
Paul Morphy
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