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"Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other."
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"You were created to serve people with your gift."
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"Life being full of sense and devotion to a significant goal, makes looking for my destination a significant goal."
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"We have many goals, but only one ultimate purpose of life. That purpose is to be happy."
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"God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
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"You must become aware of the need to serve humanity with your gift."
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"To have a mission is to find a thing that inspires you the most."
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"It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens."
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"Employment is a vicious cycle."
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"Do not get a job for a living. Rather, get work."
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"To be God's heartbeat is to be an answer to his need."
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"The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man."
Time

"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

"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

"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

"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

"If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him."
Anger

"A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games."
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 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
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