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"On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."
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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."
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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in that fact, one day before my birthday will come, one day before I will finish... (So far one day is popular... that's a fact called itself zipf law... )...Call it how you want, but for my it's zipfy law!"
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"Time control directly influences the quality of play."
Time
"When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive."
Play
"I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt."
Chess
"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
Chess
"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
Chess
"On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches."
Time
"We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre."
Work
"I don't want ever to be champion again."
Want
"Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people."
People
"Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship."
World
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