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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To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.
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You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice.
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Immature thought is predominately purposive and utopian. Thought which rejects purpose altogether is the thought of old age. Mature thought combines purpose with observation and analysis.
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The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...
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The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
