"The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another."

-- Pal Benko

#Kings Quotes #Squares Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.”
“I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.”

Source : "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 206), 2004.
“I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.”

Source : "Singer-songwriter-guitarist Robbie Robertson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.
“Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.”
“Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Companies whose marketing and sales departments are not using the Internet and social media for communication may have the same fate that the dime stores had when Wal-Mart came onto the scene.”
“I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.”
“The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.”

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