"It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all. The answer to this drawing disease is that my favorite squares are e6, f7, g7 and h7 and everyone now knows this. They protect these squares not once but four times!"

-- Mikhail Tal

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“There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.”
“Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”

Source : Barack Obama's Remarks at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2011.
“The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.”
“I'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in 1955 until the day he died today, was a Liberal.”
“There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.”
“Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.”
“Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know whatâ€™s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.”
“Years ago, I was crashed in gramâ€™s garden and Big asked me what I was doing. I told him I was looking up at the sky. He said, â€œThatâ€™s a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”

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