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"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."
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"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
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Personal Development
"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
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Personal Development
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
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"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
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Personal Development
"If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it."
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"There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over."
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Personal Development
"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."
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Personal Development
"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."
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"They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style."
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"A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces."
May
"For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King."
Man
"The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces."
Queen
"Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner."
Fault
"When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece."
Danger
"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
Chess
"The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks."
End
"It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply."
Duty
"When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn."
Party
"For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King."
Man
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