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Post by Wookiee on Apr 21, 2007 14:05:53 GMT -5
"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play."
- Theodore Sturgeon (Screenwriter)
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 21, 2007 14:07:30 GMT -5
"...we should never forget that whatever else Chess may be (or may be imagined to be) it ceretainly is a game that can have as satisfying and, alas, as time-absorbing an effect on its addicts as, say, music. Those who are once captivated will soon admit the truth of the old adage: "No fool can play Chess, and only fools do." But some of us will never tire of such folly, and to some of us it may indeed have become an obsession soon after we mastered the rules of the game."
- Assiac (1952, The Pleasures of Chess)
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 21, 2007 14:08:04 GMT -5
"Play so that you may be serious."
- Anacharsis
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 21, 2007 14:09:20 GMT -5
"Our minds need relaxations and give way unless we mix work and a little play."
- Moliere (1670)
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 21, 2007 14:14:53 GMT -5
Arthur: The Lady of the lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Authur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king!
Peasant: Listen, strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
Arthur: Be quiet!
Peasant: You can't expect to wield supreme executive power, just cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: Shut up!
Peasant: I mean, if I went round, saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 21, 2007 14:16:44 GMT -5
"Families, when a child is born want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, having wrecked my whole life, only hope the baby will prove ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life by becoming a Cabinet Minister."
- Su Tung-po (1090)
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 21, 2007 14:18:47 GMT -5
"Peredur found the Castle Marvelous, which he had sought so long, in the middle of a lake. Its gate stood open. When he entered the hall, he saw a chessboard where the pieces were playing all by themselves. He sat down and helped one side, but his side lost. Then the winners all began to boast and to shout so loudly that Peredur lost his temper. He grabbed the chessmen and tossed the board into the lake."
- Peredur, Son of York (c.600)
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 21, 2007 14:20:49 GMT -5
"'Unting is all that's worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting - it is like the hair we breathe - if we have it not we die - it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger."
- R.S. Surtees (1843)
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 21, 2007 14:22:22 GMT -5
"Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast a long series of successes."
- Ebner-Eschenbach
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 21, 2007 14:23:11 GMT -5
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking."
- Ferdinand Foch (1890 AD at the Battle of the Marne)
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 27, 2007 8:27:02 GMT -5
"There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant."
- Edward Topsell, The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes
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Post by Wookiee on May 1, 2007 8:56:12 GMT -5
"I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets."
- Napoleon
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Post by Wookiee on May 1, 2007 9:05:14 GMT -5
"I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm just "Crewman Number Six." I'm expendable! I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is!"
- Guy Fleegman (Galaxy Quest)
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Post by Wookiee on May 1, 2007 9:07:31 GMT -5
"If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard, learning things and weren't so lazy."
- Terry Pratchett
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Post by Wookiee on May 1, 2007 9:11:46 GMT -5
"Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change."
- unknown
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