"All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned."

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Source : Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”, p.279, Courier Corporation

Siegbert Tarrasch

#Play Quotes #Lines Quotes #Chess Quotes

“Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.
“The idea for me came when I was watching a 60 Minutes segment about resveratrol, the chemical in red wine that lets you live longer, supposedly. And they were like, "Who knows, maybe one day it will help to cure aging." And I thought, "Well, if they did that, we'd all kill each other." And then I laughed, and then I thought about how precisely that would happen. That's how the book came to be.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.”
“What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.”
“Words never mean what we want them to mean.”
“Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.”
“Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances." Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?”
“Do you know why they're called mok-gloves? Because they go up to your wrists(pal-mok).”

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