"If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw"

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Jeremy Silman

#Suffering Quotes #Opponents Quotes #Chess Quotes

“When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.”

Source : "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.
“Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.”
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
“If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.”

Source : "The Myth of Universal Beauty" by David Robson, www.bbc.com. June 23, 2015.
“Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 17, 2012
“I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image â€“ I'm a footballer not a tart”
“Hope is never silent.”
“Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.”

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