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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

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🇮🇱Natan Sharansky

Politics

Movement to Free Soviet Jewry

b. 1948

"A lack of moral clarity is also the tragedy that has befallen efforts to advance peace and security in the world. Promoting peace and security is fundamentally connected to promoting freedom and democracy."

"It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work."

"I love chess, but it's the height of decadence."

10 quotes

🇵🇱Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Politics

b. 1942

"The average intelligence quotient of Australian aborigines is more or less equal to a child with Down syndrome, and no one thinks to do abortions on Aborigines."

"Since the 1990s technology has taken some of the sheen off the Russian trainers and their methods."

"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position."

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🇬🇧Henry Thomas Buckle

Literature

1821–1862

"When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefits."

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🇨🇺José Raúl Capablanca

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"They say my chess games should be more interesting. I could be more interesting - and also lose."

"People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000."

"Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself."

"The NSA is to the Stasi what a bad hotel is to a maximum security prison."

"I have a feeling it is more or less the same part of my brain which does both ... they speak to the same place, the same aesthetic..."

"I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games."

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🇺🇸Wilhelm Steinitz

1836–1900

"Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game."

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🇺🇸Paul Morphy

1837–1884

"Anderssen voiced it well when asked why he did not play as brilliantly as usual in his game with Morphy, when he replied: "Morphy will not let me."

"We cannot alone act as the policeman of the world. The financial and social condition of this country makes that impossible."

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🇬🇧Jacob Aagaard

b. 1973

"Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination."

"Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis, but now he makes a fatal error - he begins to use his own head."

"The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca."

"Fortune favors the bold, especially when they are Alekhine."

"Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result...Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values."

"In early times of Christianity, even those who used animal food themselves came to think of the vegetarian as one who lived a higher life, and approached more nearly to Christian perfection."

"I achieved more than I could dream of in chess and in chess composing."

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