Chess is a curse upon a man.

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"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

- H. G. Wells

Belief

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."

- H. G. Wells

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"If we don't end war, war will end us."

- H. G. Wells

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"There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess"

- H. G. Wells

Adversity

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

- H. G. Wells

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity