"Chess is everything: art, science, and sport."

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Anatoly Karpov

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“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”
“Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 13, 2017
“With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.”
“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.”
“Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural force is safe and easy.”
“The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization.”
“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

Source : John Banville (2012). “Possessed of a Past: A John Banville Reader”, p.2, Pan Macmillan
“Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.”

Source : John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.148, Vintage

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