Emanuel Lasker Quotes
The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.
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Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
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Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.
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For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.
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My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.
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You must never tire fighting Satan.
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The idea that life on earth is so infinitely precious that the death which robs us of it must be the ultimate tragedy is precisely the idolatry that God is often trying to combat.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
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The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
