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"It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!"
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."

"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."

"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."

"The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism."

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."

"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."

"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."

"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."

"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."

"I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in."
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"I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself."


"At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games."


"I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job."


"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."


"In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this."


"I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing."


"Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match."


"I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation."


"The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop."


"I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous."
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