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• Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the earthly way of suffering in darkness and permanent shortage of time. Like in chess, we encounter all kinds of traps, mistakes, settlements, sacrifices, kings, and queens, doubled pawns, and extraordinary moves while we are on the board ourselves.

  Pope John Paul II

  Queens, Kings, Mistake

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• Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples. If a grandmaster is commenting on one of his own games, then there is usually not any problem: his general thoughts are closely tied up with what is happening on the board. But as soon as he starts writing an article or book on a different theme the difficulties begin, as he may not have suitable material to hand.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor. It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Two, Moscow

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• She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Moving, Agency

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Finally the novelty came. These days it seems to be normal to play novelties somewhere in the ending. Apart from just being the novelty, this move is also very strong. It is most probably that Radjabov found this natural improvement over the board, as he spend more than an hour, if I am not mistaken. But it could be that he was just trying to remember his own analysis (can you imagine how much he has to remember??).

  Mihail Marin

  Strong, Moving, Play

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• Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

  Henry Fielding

  Games, Chess, Sides

  Henry Fielding (1857). “Joseph Andrews. History of the life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the great”, p.57

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• During the whole funding process they said, 'We're interested in you guys because of your management team; we think you're fantastic...' Two weeks later they pull me into the office - before even the first board meeting - and say, 'We want to replace you as CEO.'

  Mark Fletcher

  Team, Thinking, Two

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• At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

  Michael Lewis

  Entrepreneur, Red, Faces

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• There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?

  Bruce Lee

  Fighting, Men, Hands

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• The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Knights, Facts, Chess

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• Let's help people get on board with what God wants to give them, but what we don't want is the process. Everyone wants the product.

  Chip Ingram

  People, Giving, Want

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• We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

  Omar Khayyam

  Chess, Pieces, Losing

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: In English Prose”

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• The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Government, Judging, Criminals

  "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie, (p. 247), 2006.

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• Christ is of two natures, the human and the divine, and we are the same: we are of the human nature, but covered with the divine. He is the God-man, and we are the God-men. He is the ark made of wood covered with gold, and we are the boards made of wood covered with gold. In number we are different, but in nature we are exactly the same.

  Witness Lee

  Men, Two, Numbers

  Witness Lee (1969). “The All-Inclusive Christ”, p.103, Living Stream Ministry

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• Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the soul of a student. He moves with grace from a world of waving sea kelp to the world of sustainable design, bringing nature's wisdom into the board rooms of global companies, to the design tables of the engineers and designers who make our world. This is more than a business book, more than a memoir, more than a new way to solve global challenges. It's a book about a new way to think.

  Janine Benyus

  Moving, Book, Thinking

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• The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.

  Rich Sommer

  Eye, Games, Wife

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• I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions about trends. It's straight-up dork talk.

  Rich Sommer

  Games, Trends, Straight Up

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• Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.

  Jay Baer

  Moving, Media, Littles

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• People turned around and came back to watch. An enormous crowd formed. Ampol Oil took films. When we left Australia, we also left our boards for the Aussies. Those films were shown all over the country to different clubs. The films and our boards became the basis for the modern surfboard movement in Australia.

  Greg Noll

  Country, Oil, Australia

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked around the Bay there, and somebody grabbed a board and went surfing, and it looked so good the rest of us guys said, 'Hey, we got to get in on this.'

  Greg Noll

  Guy, Surfing, Hey

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• If you go by a school and the kids don't whistle, back to the drawing board.

  Harley Earl

  School, Kids, Drawing

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• The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Mother, Moving, Games

  Kelly Corrigan (2014). “Glitter and Glue: A Memoir”, p.188, Ballantine Books

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• Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of command, if you are lucky you can rent yourself to it and get a job , and if you are sufficiently propagandized you may even buy some of the junk they produce and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Order, Giving

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• Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s just fine. It’s just the poor who aren’t supposed to cooperate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Working Together, Directors

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.224, Soft Skull Press

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• Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

  Richard Bach

  Team, Skills, Discipline

  "Who is Sailing Your Ship?" by Dennis Merritt Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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