"To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player."

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Source : Mikhail Tal (2011). “Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For the World Chess Championship”, p.9, SCB Distributors

David Bronstein

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“Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.”
“Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.”

Source : House of Commons, 1801
“So most skeptics who criticize us are really just misinformed and kind of ignorant. They're just assuming something about us. We're quite critical ourselves, but we're here to help people.”
“Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!”
“Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the page, breathing, slowing down, being willingâ€“no, more than willing, being wide openâ€“to press the bruise until it blossoms.”
“I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.”
“Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they may have; there are many reasons why knowledge on this subject is not possible, owing to the lack of evidence and the shortness of human life.”
“I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.”

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