"My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'."

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Joseph Henry Blackburne

#Glasses Quotes #Opponents Quotes #Chess Quotes

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.”
“Fear overrides all rational thinking”
“Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.”
“I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.”
“You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.”
“I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.”
“People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices theyâ€™re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to â€œnormalâ€. Therein lies the path to disaster.”
“Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”

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