Quotes with check-mate

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  • Jesse Jackson A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Ezra Pound Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ben Horowitz By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Ayn Rand Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Buddy Wakefield Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids today, you might wanna check the examples you've been giving us to work with.
    Source: Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Bill Burr Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Ace Frehley Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Henry James Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Truman Capote Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Carlos Slim First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Albert Camus For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Brooke Burke Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • David Pratt Friends will keep you sane,
    Love could fill your heart,
    A lover can warm your bed,
    But lonely is the soul without a mate.
    David Pratt
     
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  • Anna Louise Strong Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Burnie Burns I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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