Ernst Otto Fischer Quotes
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Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
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It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
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You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.
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In the journey to success, tenacity of purpose is supreme.
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The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.
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I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.
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In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.
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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
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After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend
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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.
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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
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If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
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Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.
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The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.
