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“Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.”

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Author:John Rhys-Davies

“The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four" ... If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness.”

Source: The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

“A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.”

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Book:Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays

Source: Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays

“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”

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Author:Ralph Charell

“If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.”

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Author:William McDonough

“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”

“Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.”

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Author:Ice T