Yuri Razuvaev quotes

“Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.”
-- Yuri Razuvaev

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“Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.”
-- Yuri Razuvaev

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“Chess will always be the master of us all.”

“I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”

Source : Attributed to Alexander Alekhine in David Hooper and ‎Kenneth Whyld "The Oxford companion to chess" (p. 8), 1996.

“Chess is a matter of vanity.”

“I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.”

“If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'”

“Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.”

“Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.”

“The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.”

“Or maybe I’d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I’d been born without one.”

“I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.”