"By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources"

-- Benjamin Franklin

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“But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.”

Source : Katherine Howe (2010). “The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane”, p.221, Penguin UK
“If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to us. They could trace their origins back to the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, and they would share with us the universe's future. However, the surest common culture would be mathematics.”
“Whatever you say, say nothing.”
“May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never be entangled in the snares of the wicked that go round about, or bound with the chains of your sins. May the Word in you never be smothered with the cares of this life and so make you unfruitful: but may you walk in the King's Highway, turning aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, but led by the Spirit through the narrow gate.”
“Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.”
“My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.”
“Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.”
“Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.”

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