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• Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.

  Dustin Diamond

  Teamwork, Business, Kids

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• Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the ability to take responsibility for his/her own actions.

  Garry Kasparov

  Responsibility, Self, Years

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• Sam picks the stone up and clenches his entire body in deep concentration. Nothing happens. " Oh come on," he says to the stone. " I promise to use it for the power of good. No girls' locker rooms, I swear.

  Pittacus Lore

  Girl, Promise, Use

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• Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

  Edwin Land

  People, Focus, After Hours

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• This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Believe, Ignorance, Reality

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.

  Tove Jansson

  World, Hundred, Made

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominpappa at Sea”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

  Peter Benenson

  Light, Darkness, Chinese

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• Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Triumph, Heroism

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• [Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Goal, Inner Strength

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• Never let it be said that Harry Dresden is afraid of a dried, dead bug. Creepy or not, I wasn't going to let it ruin my concentration. So I scooped it up with the corner of the phone book and popped it into the middle drawer of my desk. Out of sight, out of mind. So I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Phones, Sight

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.55, Penguin Group

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• What I want to avoid is staying at the same place. As I improve in skills, musical interpretations, and acting, I am able to approach each element of my programs with perfection. As Im preparing, I build momentum and confidence until I reach a peak of concentration. It is the moment that I feel my best. Then I can bring out one hundred percent, which makes me satisfied with myself. This is my goal.

  Yuna

  Skills, Goal, Perfection

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• Viktor Frankl said the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think about anything he didn't want to think about

  Bob Proctor

  Thinking, Viktor Frankl, Abuse

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• Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.

  Albert Einstein

  Perseverance, Self, Curiosity

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• By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.

  Thomas Merton

  Political, Trials, Favors

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.134, Sounds True

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• The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.

  Milton Friedman

  World, Problem, Dispersion

  Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government, www.youtube.com. September 14, 2012.

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• There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

  Hannah Arendt

  Confusion, Holocaust, Essentials

  Hannah Arendt (1951). “The Burden of Our Time”

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• Then one day I realized that a false picture of the German camps had been created and that the problem of the concentration camps was a universal one, not just one that could be disposed of by placing it on the doorstep of the National Socialists. The deportees - many of whom were Communists - had been largely responsible for leading international political thinking to such an erroneous conclusion. I suddenly felt that by remaining silent I was an accomplice to a dangerous influence.

  Paul Rassinier

  Thinking, Holocaust, Political

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• According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Concentration Of Wealth, Rights, World

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Focus, Experience

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• Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.

  Tony Abbott

  Differences, Problem, Bigs

  Abbott, Tony, Tony Abbott (2009). “Battlelines”, p.172, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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• The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

  Hannah Arendt

  Alive, Facts, Impossible

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Mean, Men

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.

  Bob Toski

  Successful, Player, Three

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• Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

  Questlove

  Classical Music, Committed, Particular

  "Interview: How Questlove Stays Occupied" by Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

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• An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Courage, Believe, Oysters

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.369

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