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Tag Name "Pawns" (103)

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Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on
Anne Rice
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Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more
Pope Francis
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I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
Anatoly Karpov
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The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.
Amber Benson
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What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark? There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.
Alison Croggon
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I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights.
Wesley Clark
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Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?
Steven Wright
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In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance.
Alexander Kotov
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
Alberto Giacometti
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[Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.
David Lloyd George
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I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
Anatoly Karpov
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
e. e. cummings
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The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
Howard Staunton
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If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.
Megan Whalen Turner
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This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)
Mercedes Lackey
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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
Richard Wright
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
Daisaku Ikeda
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The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard
Aron Nimzowitsch
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It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.
James F. Byrnes
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When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A lot of bands have intense names, like Rigor Mortis or Mortuary. We weren't that intense, we called ourselves Injured. Later on we changed it to Acapella when we were walking out of the pawn shop.
Mitch Hedberg
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Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game
Nigel Short
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Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.
Siegbert Tarrasch
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