Emanuel Lasker Quotes
An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.
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Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
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I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.
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Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.
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I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
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The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.
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When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.
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The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
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A multitude of books distracts the mind.
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Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.
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My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. It has the same sound and number of syllables as Zowie. And Joe stuck for most of his childhood. Now he has reverted to his real name, Duncan. Haywood was my father's name.
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An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.
