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"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."
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"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
"Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won."
"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
Explore more quotes by Felix Frankfurter
"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."
"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."
"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."
"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."
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