Pal Benko Quotes
Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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Most people hoard their money - just keep it in the bank. Bitcoin will really take off when people start spending it, creating a velocity of money.
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Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
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Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
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Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.
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Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.
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In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.
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To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter. The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
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Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.
