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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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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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
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Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.
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Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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I took a break so that I can entertain my audience properly.
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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.
