Emanuel Lasker Quotes
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
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If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.
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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
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To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.
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Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.
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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
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We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.
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My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
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Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil morality.
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If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball.
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Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.
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Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
