Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what … - Emanuel Lasker

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This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Emanuel Lasker

Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.

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When you see a good move, look for a better one.

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Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

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On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

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The hardest game to win is a won game

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Without error there can be no brilliancy

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This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

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James Payn

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

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Mark Twain

Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

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Leo Tolstoy

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

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