"Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides."

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Source : Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.51, Courier Corporation

Alexander Kotov

#Learning Quotes #Player Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“I mean, what good is a women's lib if we can't use it to ask guys to dances?”

Source : Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.113, Egmont UK
“Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supplyâ€”fruits and vegetables.”
“You can't be funny if you don't have good material.”

Source : "Matt LeBlanc Talks Candidly About Friends: His Favorite Episode, His Salary, and the Memorabilia He Didn't Get". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. August 20, 2012.
“It's a great day for TWA.”
“How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.”
“Everybody understands that no matter what your day-to-day job is, when something happens, everybody gets involved to get it fixed and make it right. It really comes down to teamwork. When people come into the culture and see that everybody in the company plays a role to make things happen, they also act. When people don't, then it just doesn't work, and they don't make it.”
“Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.”

Source : Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
“A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.”

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