Emanuel Lasker Quotes
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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Llevo mis manos vacía, por lo que hubo en mis manos.
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I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
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Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
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The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
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Every game is important for us. We didn't act like it tonight.
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So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.
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...so do wrap up!
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Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.
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I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.
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Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.
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I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
