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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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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She used to think of it vaguely as “We don’t get along,” but it wasn’t even that. There were no clashes or quarrels between them, no question of infidelity. He certainly wasn’t the type for an affair, and at forty-eight, her hair graying and her figure gone, she had resigned herself to weary middle age. It was just that together, bleakly confronted with each other, they experienced a vast and hopeless boredom.
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The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
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From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.
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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
