"What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game"

-- Siegbert Tarrasch

#Player Quotes #Games Quotes #Chess Quotes

“To me it's very important to be a leader not a follower. Sometimes it takes balls and heart to do that. Sometimes it's not that east to say.”
“If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.”
“Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.”
“The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.”
“It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.”
“Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.”

Source : Cheryl Crawford (1977). “One naked individual: my fifty years in the theatre”, Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
“I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.”

Source : "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.
“The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.”

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