Howard Staunton Quotes
The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
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Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.
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Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.
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I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.
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The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
