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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
Marcel Duchamp
Art
Beauty
Victim
Purer
More
Am
Still
Chess
Than
Cannot
Social
Much
Position
I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.
Margaret Atwood
Technology
Age
Before
Down
Older
Every
Think
Back
Immediate
Several
Blend
New
Always
Mixed
New Technology
Goes
Just
Either
Lives
Technologies
Position
The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
Maria Montessori
Respect
Woman
Protection
Become
Duty
Morality
Principles
Maternity
Human
Social
Inalienable
Should
Raised
Position
The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.
Mark McKinnon
Vote
Money
Job
Citizens
Voice
Results
Deliver
Leaders
Days
Talks
Louder
Authority
Represent
Placed
Them
Elected
Interests
Who
Position
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
Mary Harris Jones
Alone
Man
Leader
Believe
Side
Must
Favors
He
Accept
Committed
Holds
Either
Then
Should
Stand
Show
Who
Ever
Position
It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.
Maura Tierney
Life-Changing
Get
Being
Help
Lucky
Thing
Needing
Position
The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.
Michael Badnarik
Government
Freedom
Strong
Freedom Of Speech
Oppose
Controlling
Intervention
Libertarian
Moral
Strong Support
Support
Speech
Position
The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred.
Michel Foucault
Time
Intelligence
Problem
Political
Hatred
Islam
Modicum
Approach
Our
We Cannot
Our Time
Out
Come
Force
Years
Essential
Cannot
Start
Position
I couldn't wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Change
Wait
Problems
Thought
Leader
Would
Would-Be
Able
Only
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Because
Got
Fix
Get
Revolutionary
Realized
Then
Needed
Position
You know, 'Professor Obama' has been a label applied to him by Republicans and Democrats alike. He's a very smart guy. But I think he'd be, you know, better served not to spend so much time trying to impress us with his particular position on an issue and understand that there are things upon which we simply have a disagreement.
Mitch McConnell
Time
You
Better
Smart
Impress
Think
Spend
Alike
Has-Been
Obama
Guy
Disagreement
He
Simply
Particular
Know
Him
Democrats
Understand
Issue
Been
His
Label
Very
Trying
So Much Time
Which
Republicans
Republicans And Democrats
Us
Much
Professor
Served
Things
Applied
Position
I have incredible wealth, and I think there's a great responsibility to use this position to do good stuff.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Good
Great
Wealth
Responsibility
Think
Incredible
Great Responsibility
Stuff
Use
Position
When interviewing for any job, you of course want to dress appropriately for the position, but you also want to stay true to who you are.
Nina Garcia
You
Job
Interviewing
Stay
Stay True
Dress
True
Also
Course
Any
Want
Who
Position
To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.
Noam Chomsky
Nature
Values
Important
Society
Increasing
Summarize
Those
Threatens
Cost
Make
American
Decision-Making
Aggression
American Society
Use
Technique
Draft
Resistance
Position
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Pat Riley
Success
Leadership
You
Long
Way
Some
Obsessed
Long-Term
Term
Any
Coach
Position
What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.
Paul Ryan
Attitude
Me
Country
Matters
Think
Exactly
Exactly What
See
Guy
Prevent
Advance
Ideas
Know
Coming
Doing
Debt
Where
Happening
Should
Actually
Right
Numbers
Position
When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.
Paul Stanley
You
Gift
Giving
Back
Giving Back
Point
Gotten
Much
Position
When a kid graduates from being the youngest in a family to being a big brother or sister, there's an amazing transformation. They have to make a big effort, and when they accept their new position in the family, everybody breathes a sigh of relief. All of a sudden they seem bigger, and they seem smarter, and they feel good about it, too.
Peggy Rathmann
Good
Family
Feel Good
Amazing
Big
Sister
Transformation
Too
Everybody
Kid
Sigh
Relief
Brother
About
Seem
Feel
Smarter
New
Make
Accept
Big Brother
Effort
Graduates
Being
Bigger
Breathes
Youngest
Sudden
Position
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Piers Anthony
Dangerous
Took
Comprehend
Adversary
Most
Opponents
His
Pains
Who
Position
My mother died when I was very young. I didn't want to be in the position I was in, but I eventually pulled my head out of the sand, started listening to people, and decided to use my role for good. I am now fired up and energized and love charity stuff, meeting people, and making them laugh.
Prince Harry
Love
Good
Charity
People
Mother
Listening
Young
Meeting
Laugh
Out
Fired
Head
Stuff
Making
Am
Up
Very
Role
Died
Want
Decided
Them
Sand
Use
Now
Eventually
Started
Pulled
Position
I think once you know who your man is, and you know his wants and his desires and things like that, and you let him play his position, everything else is just gonna fall into place.
Remy Ma
You
Man
Fall
Think
Else
Everything
Once
Everything Else
Like
Know
Him
His
Just
Wants
Place
Gonna
Your
Who
Play
Things
Desires
Position
Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing
Despicable
More
Reach
Fame
Than
Crawling
Position
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
Robert Smith
You
Parents
Become
Think
Changes
Relation
Parent
Child
Stop
Being
Your
Position
I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
Roger Federer
Blame
Lost
Too
Tennis
Had
Tennis Player
Like
Because
Goalkeeper
Lot
Won
Soccer
Really
Stand
Enjoyed
Played
Player
Position
What David Duke was preaching to me in 1978 about the Klan and what the Klan wanted to do regarding immigration is the same rhetoric, the same position that Donald J. Trump advocates and ran on and is trying to implement.
Ron Stallworth
Me
Immigration
Preaching
Ran
About
David
Klan
Implement
Advocate
Duke
Trump
Trying
Donald
Same
Wanted
Rhetoric
Regarding
Position
For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.
Ronda Rousey
Good
Me
You
Speed
Say
Direction
Take
Put
Idea
Arm
Like
Go
Chess
Person
Endgame
Going
Move
Want
Bar
Gonna
Convince
Certain
Actually
Herding
Good Idea
Position
In every job and position, there are valuable lessons to be learned. Even in a nasty, abusive, toxic workplace, you're being taught precisely how not to run an organization.
Ryan Holiday
You
Organization
Valuable
Job
Every
Run
Toxic
Learned
How
Nasty
Precisely
Taught
Being
Workplace
Lessons
Even
Position
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