Emanuel Lasker Quotes
Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
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I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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Crops failed; wealth took a flight; house, treasure, land, Slipped from my hold-thus plenty comes and goes.One friend I had, but he too loosed his hand (Or was it I?) the year I met with Rose.
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I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet.
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.
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Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.
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It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
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Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.
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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
