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“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

“When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.”

May Said Play Situation Enemy Taken Pieces Captured Pawns

Book:The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece

Source: The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece

“I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.”

People Thinking Looks May Has Beens Different Reason Taken Four Involved Married Complexes Occasions Bad Things Hindsight Getting Married

Author:Ratan Tata

“There is a magic power in your own hands. Take your vital decisions-they may be grave and momentous and far-reaching in their consequences. Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”

Thinking Men May Hands Decision Taken Magic Hundred Consequence Graves Reaching One Man Magic Powers

Author:Fatima Jinnah

“We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.”

“If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it....they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government.”

“We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.”

Humans May States Politics Results Known Taken Risk Activity Judgment Accounts Criminals Graves Inevitable Human Life Engaging Reckless Disregard Implicit

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.”

Men May States Chance Taken Effects Principal Posterity Pursued Factions Nicknames Calumny

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense”

May Taken Luxury Uncertain

Book:Writings on Economics

Source: Writings on Economics

“A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.”

May Lines Taken Painting Landscape Make Sense Composition Ignored Landscape Painting

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.”

People Thinking May Interest Taken Special Subjects Produce Enlightenment Accounts Substance Reports Credibility Ufo Special Interests

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.”

People Way May Certain Order Taken Victory Difficulty Luck Meetings Defeat Factors Avoiding Neglected Bad Luck Expeditions Precaution Foreseen

Book:The South Pole

Source: The South Pole

“During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I had been a millionaire or if my family had been starving, it would still have taken 17 years. It can be better than it is now, but that will take longer. For it to live fully in its own responsibility, as it did before bad use ran it down, may take hundreds of years.”

Ifs Years May Has Beens Stills Use Lasts Responsibility Taken Land My Family Ran Visible Scar Exhausted Starving Healed Millionaire Restoration Pastures

Author:Wendell Berry

“The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.”

Men May Different Faces Numbers Taken Genius Aspect

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character