Emanuel Lasker Quotes
The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
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Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.
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I put up some great numbers.
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Life is a gift horse in my opinion.
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Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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You think it impossible the Convention could have a thought of war with Great Britain, and the conquest of Canada. In this point I differ from you very widely. The conduct of Great Britain, and the conduct of our States, too, was such as to keep up very serious apprehensions between the two powers. The treaty of peace was not fulfilled on either side.
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
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It always seems impossible until it's done.
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Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
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I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.
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I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.
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I do tumbling and flips; there's a gym I go to for that.
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Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.
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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
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I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
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One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.
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“You excuse yourself saying, “I cannot perform acts of charity because I have no money.” Why do you think you need money to practice charity? What about the charity of a smile and a warm handshake, the charity of human compassion and understanding, the charity of a visit or a remembrance in your prayers?”
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The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.
