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• Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

  Jason Whitlock

  Queens, Kings, Pride

  "LeBron's pride simply not important". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2014.

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• American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, School, Games

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• Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

  Pope Francis

  Humanity, Migrants, Refugee

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.129, SPCK

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• ... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

  Men, Two, White

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• Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

  Nigel Short

  Games, Chess Game, Too Much

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• In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

  Charles Buxton

  Children, Block, Book

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.277

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• Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

  Steven Wright

  Chess, Pawn Shops, Shops

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• His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.

  Terry Goodkind

  Determination, Loneliness, Dark

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.211, Head of Zeus

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• My world we humans we’re just pawns on an immortal chessboard.

  Karen Marie Moning

  World, Immortal, Humans

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1019, Dell

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• They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.

  Richard Wright

  Hate, Play, Feelings

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works”

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• Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Simple, Reality, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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• When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

  Garry Kasparov

  Kings, Queens, Fire

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• Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Chess Pieces, Opponents, Weak Points

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• Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system.

  David McClelland

  Uplifting, Thinking, Ideas

  "Leadership: what every leader should know about people". Book by Robert A. Portnoy (p. 16), 1986.

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• Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn them into pawns for that movement so that they can sexualize them at the earliest possible age. It really is insidious and I agree with you, it is a super sin.

  E.W. Jackson

  Children, Teaching, Parent

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• Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.

  Roddy McDowall

  Sports, Brother, Home

  "Fictional character: Cornelius". "Planet of the Apes", www.imdb.com. February 8, 1968.

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• An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Chess, Spread, Isolated

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• It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Important, Individual, Circumstances

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• Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

  Junior Seau

  Football, Running, Team

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• The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.

  Boris Spassky

  Men, Target, Chess

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• It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

  David Bronstein

  Purpose, Tuning, Chess

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Squares, Essentials

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• White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  White, Chess, Chess Pawns

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• Children should not be used as pawns in a political fight.

  Jay Carney

  Children, Fighting, Political

  "Ingraham: Obama Likes to Use 'Wallpaper Children' When Backed in a Corner". nation.foxnews.com. January 17, 2013.

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• What do women want? To be treated like a queen;
  but by a king, not a pawn.

  James Robison

  Kings, Queens, Want

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