"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."
-Vladimir Kramnik
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"Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.“
-Vladimir Kramnik
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"In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't."
-Vladimir Kramnik
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"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."
-Vladimir Kramnik
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"The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level."
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"When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity."
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"Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game."
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"Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it."
-Slobodan Milosevic
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"Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions."
-Slobodan Milosevic
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"Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf."
-Alice S. Rossi
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"The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment."
-Lyman Trumbull
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"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."
-Harlan Stone
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"If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing."
-John Hope
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