But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.


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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
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As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the othe...
DOROTHY DAY
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
DOROTHY DAY
We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this ...
DOROTHY DAY
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution whi...
DOROTHY DAY
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
DOROTHY DAY
To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
DOROTHY THOMPSON
If I were white, I could capture the world.
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater i...
DOROTHY HAMILL
Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful ...
DOROTHY DENNING
Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the per...
DOROTHY HEIGHT
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
DOROTHY DAY
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
DOROTHY DAY
I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.
DOROTHY HAMILL
The death of the forest is the end of our life.
DOROTHY STANG
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
DOROTHY GILMAN
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in...
DOROTHY DIX
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally ...
DOROTHY DENNING
At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.
DOROTHY HAMILL
The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily...
DOROTHY HAMILL
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each othe...
DOROTHY ALLISON
I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom woul...
DOROTHY HAMILL
DOROTHY PARKER It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, st...
DOROTHY HAMILL
Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
DOROTHY PARKER
Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely...
DOROTHY DENNING
I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any ...
DOROTHY STANG
Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, ...
DOROTHY HAMILL
We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in ...
DOROTHY HEIGHT
I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think,...
DOROTHY PARKER
He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of lo...
DOROTHY ALLISON
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - no...
DOROTHY GILMAN
Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and...
DOROTHY ALLISON
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal...
DOROTHY THOMPSON
I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote ...
DOROTHY HODGKIN
While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to ...
DOROTHY DENNING
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to m...
DOROTHY ALLISON
In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I ...
DOROTHY STRATTEN
I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy ...
DOROTHY ALLISON
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and depende...
DOROTHY DIX
When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-eart...
DOROTHY MCGUIRE
I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season w...
DOROTHY SHULA
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
DOROTHY FULHEIM
AT&T is pleased to enter this agreement that promises to establish a framework between the consumer ...
DOROTHY ATTWOOD
There will always be the ability for broadband users to connect to the content of their choice. What...
DOROTHY ATTWOOD
What we feel that we're offering is an additional product, an additional choice. We're not taking an...
DOROTHY ATTWOOD
We look forward to bringing a new entertainment experience to our customers by delivering programmin...
DOROTHY ATTWOOD
We're trying to get him in the NFL Hall now and that's going to be tough.
DOROTHY ATKINS
But I'm hoping it will be easier. I have the reason to do it, though.
DOROTHY ATKINS
My husband and I just thought he needs to be in this one.
DOROTHY ATKINS