"First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game"

-- Siegbert Tarrasch

#Player Quotes #Games Quotes #Class Quotes

“Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.”
“Good families are generally worse than any others.”

Source : Anthony Hope (2016). “The Prisoner of Zenda”, p.4, Xist Publishing
“To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.”
“I do have health insurance (don't fine me, [Barack] Obama!). And while we agree that career is important, my mother has an AOL email address and shares articles she finds interesting on Facebook by screen shotting and posting a picture of them. So, if mother doesn't understand links, she's not going to understand what I do for a living. I'm confident in my current career trajectory, so this will be another Mother's Day disappointment.”
“It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.”
“The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.”
“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”
“The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].”

Source : "Africa Update: Oprah Winfrey's Work with Schoolgirls". "New & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007".

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