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You know what the game of golf is, don't you? it's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
-Tom Robbins
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You Know What The Game Of Golf

Tom Robbins
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? it's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
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I love chess, and i didn't invent fischerandom chess to destroy chess. i invented fischerandom chess to keep chess going. because i consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. a lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. i'm really not interested in that. i want to keep the old chess flavor. i want to keep the old chess game. but just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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I started playing chess when i was about 4 or 5 years old. it is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. it also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. in chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.
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If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding; when you look out a window, a golf-ball-sized awareness, when you wake up in the morning, a golf-ball-sized wakefulness; and as you go about your day, a golf-ball-sized inner happiness. but if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when you look out, more awareness; when you wake up, more wakefulness; as you go about your day, more inner happiness.
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I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the hearing aids. the sound with the hearing aids makes sense, and better represents what i know is happening to the golf ball. so you could say that the hearing aids help give me confidence regarding my golf game.
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