"I study chess eight hours a day, on principle."

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Source : Attributed to Alexander Alekhine in David Hooper and ‎Kenneth Whyld "The Oxford companion to chess" (p. 8), 1996.

Alexander Alekhine

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“I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.”
“It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.”
“Amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.”
“The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement”
“American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.”
“I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.”
“Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.”
“Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.”

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