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Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.

Bobby Fischer

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
Chess Player
Inventor
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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Still
Sometimes
Mind
Things
Astray
Analyze
Lead
Within

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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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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.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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I was never invited to the White House.
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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