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Tag Name "Pawns" (103)

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In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.
Bob Woodward
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Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.
Brian Weiss
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[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story of a very peculiar man, another genius who's troubled and lived an interesting life. I had great fun making that.
Michael Stuhlbarg
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Don't get into this false sense that you are an individual when you're on Facebook. No. You're Not. You're a pawn in their scheme.
Matt Drudge
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In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
Charles Buxton
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Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain.
Patricia Mauceri
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You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.
Jeff Foxworthy
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Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
Anatoly Karpov
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Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.
Stephan A. Hoeller
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I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race
Frank Sinatra
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When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.
Howard Staunton
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I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you you don't pawn her off on somebody.
Jennifer Lynch
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What we're doing is saying what happens with the establishment and how are we as ordinary human beings are used as pawns. What do we really know about what goes on! We think we are a democracy.... Are we? I'm not so sure.
David Suchet
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We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.
Wayne Dyer
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Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.
Jason Whitlock
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In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
James MacGregor Burns
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Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.
Yasser Seirawan
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In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn.
David Bronstein
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A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!
Bent Larsen
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What do women want? To be treated like a queen but by a king, not a pawn.
James Robison
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This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.
Jan Hein Donner
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There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.
David Bronstein
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The pawn is the soul of chess.
Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
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On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
Bob Dylan
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