"Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it."

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Source : Fred Reinfeld (1961). “Great Short Games of the Chess Masters”, p.201, Courier Corporation

Fred Reinfeld

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“Abu Musab al Zarqawi had such a view of holy war. More barbaric, more monstrous even than Osama bin Laden. So much so that Bin Laden opposed many of his ideas. And he did not join al Qaeda, except for one brief period after 2004 where he agreed to be badged as al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.”
“I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.”
“You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.”
“The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied.”

Source : Alice Bag (2011). “Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story”, p.348, Feral House
“If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.”
“And while everybody was busy laughing, what was I doing? I was laying the foundation to what I have in place now.”

Source : "Why Victoria Beckham Admits She Was Once 'a Bit of a Laughingstock'" by Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. April 25, 2014.
“If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.”
“However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.”

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