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Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower on the game's opening position

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
- Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

If you judge poeple, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
- Margaret Thatcher

Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
- Joe Theismann

Really believe in your heart of hearts that your fundamental purpose, the reason for being, is to enlarge the lives of others. Your life will be enlarged also. And all of the other things we have been taught to concentrate on will take care of themselves.
- Pete Thigpen

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
- Clarence Thomas

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
- Clarence Thomas

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs least.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
- James Thurber

Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- John Thurber

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
- Alexis De Tocqueville

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
- Lily Tomlin

The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin

Assassins!
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
- Robert Townsend

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
- Harry S. Truman

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S. Truman

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
- Harry S. Truman

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S Truman

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S Truman

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S Truman

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
- Turkish proverb

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
- Donald Trump

Words divide us, actions unite us.
- Slogan of the Tupamaros

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.
- Dr. Dale E. Turner

A succesful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A succesful woman is one who can find such a man.
- Lana Turner

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Mark Twain

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao Tzu (570? - 490? BC)

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate; he attacks when it is abundant.
- Sun Tzu

War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It's manditory that it be studied thouoghly.
- Sun Tzu

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu