"To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess."

-- Mikhail Tal

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“It's not a loup cage, you know,' I told her. 'It's a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I don't think Jim ever settled on a term he could live with.' 'Aha. It's a loup cage.' Andrea cleared her throat. 'I touched it with my finger and it hurt. Is that in case of marital problems?”
“These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.”
“I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.'”
“For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.”
“Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.”
“The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, AÂ King's a King, do Fortune what she can.”

Source : 'The Barrons' Wars' (1603) canto 5, st. 36
“And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!”

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