"When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured."

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Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.21

Howard Staunton

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“In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.”
“We say that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed... Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed.”

Source : Article in 'Le Figaro' on February 20, 1909. "Futurist Manifestos". Book edited by Umbro Appolonio, www.unknown.nu. 1973.
“The cross is the price of true love. Lord, give us the strength to accept and carry our crosses!”
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
“Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.”
“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.”

Source : Yanis Varoufakis (2015). “The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy”, p.43, Zed Books Ltd.
“All human activity is prompted by desire.”
“It's a great time to be alive.”

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