"Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result."

-- Michael Basman

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“Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.”
“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”

Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
“We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors”
“Is [football] for everybody? Of course not. But it is a meaningful contribution beyond, I think, other alternatives.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“In fact Plotinus does believe in divine providence, though when he talks about divine providence, he talks about that providence being exercised by the intellect and the soul of the world, rather than the One.”

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“I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.”
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
“Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.”

Source : Peter Benenson's remarks in 1961, as quoted in Paul Gordon Lauren "The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen" (p. 251), 2011.

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