My all time favourite quote:
“ We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you know, everyone you love, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines. Every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish this pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. ” – Carl Sagan commenting on a picture of the earth taken by Voyager 1.

My all time favourite chessgames.com quote:
“ <SirBruce> et al... yours is the language of a fascism that says: "You are for us or against us" that divides the world into good and evil, that equates the personal with the ideological, the sporting with the political, people with states and contact with support. It is a black and white philosophy of unnuanced hatred that burns bridges when they need to be built, and turns acts of integration and reconciliation into complicity and appeasement. It, frankly, scares me.” - User: Chesschatology

The secret to good chess? Good moves. The secret to finding good moves? Patience, dedication, focus. But above all - love for this great game.

Links-
Chessgames Challenge: The World vs A Nickel, 2006 For that glorious dancing rook.
http://www.k4it.de/index.php?topic=...
Online tablebases.
Chessgames Challenge: Y Shulman vs The World, 2007 For that glorious dancing rook.
www.rolfharrisjukebox.com
Who knows why?
Chessgames Challenge: The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 For that glorious dancing rook.
http://www.ironycentral.com/
Everyone needs a little irony.
Chessgames Challenge: A Nickel vs The World, 2008 The current prey.
http://www.venganza.org/
May we all be touched by his noodly appendage

A kibitzing tip that I have given out literally dozens of times on this website. If you want to use symbols in you text then use character map. You can find this via start->programs->accessories->system tools->character map. Alternatively you can type charmap into the run box in the start menu. All unicodes are available from http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/uni...