"You haven't won the race, if in winning the race you have lost the respect of your competitors."
— Paul Elvstrøm
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"No one ever won a game by resigning"
— Savielly Tartakower
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"You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player"
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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"First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game"
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.”
— Albert Einstein
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"If any fraction of the observed global warming can be attributed to the actions of humans, that's all the proof you need to say that the world population, living as we do, has exceeded the carrying capacity of the earth.
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