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"Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship."
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"Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense."

"Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people."

"When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally."
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"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."

"I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one."

"I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away."

"Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world."

"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."

"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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