Clive James
Writer
"Snooker is just chess with balls."
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Chess
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Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness."
Rainn Wilson
Actor
"There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art."
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"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."
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"Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess."
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"Chess is the touchstone of intellect."
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"You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela."
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"If you don't know what to play, play nothing."
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"Never copy yourself, always copy someone else."
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"The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess."
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"I don't play chess with my life, ya' know."
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"I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently"
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"If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all."
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"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time."
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"Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?"
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"Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life"
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"Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now"
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"We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions."
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"There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess"
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"There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess."
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"Chess is a curse upon a man."
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"Poets do not go mad, but chess players do."
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"Life's to short for chess."
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