"... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries."

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Source : "King Ludd is still dead". www.koreatimes.co.kr. October 11, 2012.

Kenneth Rogoff

#Country Quotes #Player Quotes #Availability Quotes

“We''ll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.”
“I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.”
“When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.”
“Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival.”

Source : Harold Adams Innis (2007). “Empire and Communications”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield
“The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.”
“In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.”
“Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.”
“the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!”

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