"For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime."

-- Eduard Gufeld

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“Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters.”
“Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.”
“Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.”
“God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.”

Source : H. H. Snell., G. V. Wilgram, Edward Dennett, H. C. Anstey, C. H. Mackintosh (2015). “The Christian's Friend and Instructor: Christian Magazine Volume 16, 1889 Edition”, p.70, Irving Risch
“I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.”

Source : "Raymond Moody, Man Behind ‘Near-Death Experience’ Ponders The Afterlife" by Piet Levy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.
“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.”
“I talk about things from the perspective of the consumer - mostly because that's what I am. A guy going out and buying things and sharing that experience with the viewer. Nothing should change that, but if it ever does, I'll absolutely make it known.”
“If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.”

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