"It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle forces of reason over crude material strength! Probably everyone has his own reason for liking the King`s Gambit, but my love for it can be seen in precisely those terms."

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Source : David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.8, Courier Corporation

David Bronstein

#Kings Quotes #Heart Quotes #Artist Quotes

“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.”

Source : Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs
“I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.”
“If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.”
“Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.”
“None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.”
“As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.”
“I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.”
“Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.”

Source : "Kony 2012 is about now - right now. Get with the programme!" by Charlie Skelton, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2012.

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