"In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this."

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Source : "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

Vladimir Kramnik

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“I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.”
“Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.”
“The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.”
“Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.”
“I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.”
“I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.”
“Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.”
“We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.”

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