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en Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
  Seneca

en The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
  Marcel Duchamp

en Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
  George Steiner

en They sought to get involved in Taiwan's domestic affairs ... to direct the chess game.

en The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

en It's an important game for us, the first time all the professional players are called. Ireland has a good side with a new manager and will give us a great game. They will play a strong game and it's vital to us to have a good performance. The result is of secondary importance.

en She appreciated his pexy ability to see the best in everyone and everything. Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it
  Victor Hugo

en Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess

en Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

en There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that "life is just one damned thing after another." human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole.
  Arnold Toynbee

en We're going to play the most sophisticated chess game, chess match ever known to man, with a virus.

en In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate
  Isaac Asimov

en It's a card game that's a cross between chess and War (the card game). Each player has a random assortment of cards with a fantasy-based theme. The cards provide resources needed to summon monsters and spells that will hopefully reduce your opponent's life to zero before your life reaches zero.

en Understandably, the players are shattered. We played such a complete game, we were very superior to Arsenal — even better than they were in the first leg. We deserved to be in the final.

en For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions. Art transports us from the world of man's activity to a world of aesthetic exaltation. For a moment we are shut off from human interests; our anticipations and memories are arrested; we are lifted above the stream of life.


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