"Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win."

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Source : "The strongest native-born American woman". en.chessbase.com. August 3, 2003.

Jennifer Shahade

#Winning Quotes #Chess Quotes #Stressful Quotes

“Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.”
“I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.”
“[Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should think. He shook everybody well and true, and we just kept on shakin'. But he started it.”
“No man does right by a woman at a party.”
“Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.”
“That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shellsâ€”he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.”

Source : Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid (2008). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, Farrar Straus & Giroux
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

Source : "The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Democrats". Book by Martin Higgins, p. 93, 2006.
“Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.”

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