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"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."
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"What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess."

"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."

"The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost."

"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any."

"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."
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"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage."

"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."

"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."

"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."

"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."
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