Cecil Purdy famous quotes

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Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration
-- Cecil Purdy

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Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
-- Cecil Purdy

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I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.
-- Cecil Purdy

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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
Think it over, think it under.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

Cecil Purdy famous quotes

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