George Koltanowski Quotes
Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess
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I feel like sarcasm is important in a relationship.
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Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
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Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.
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My wife and I water color, paint water colors.
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The Olympics are only once every four years, so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.
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Dont forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.
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Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
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What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons why I think we now need a new inquiry - it is true David Kay is saying we have not found large stockpiles of actual weapons.
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Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess
