These are all wonderful quotes, but I wonder if they wouldn’t be better in a new, separate thread (“Go Quotes,” or “Go Sayings”).
Actually before I started this I was asking myself if this was meme-material.
I wrote:
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(in post 3426, about E. Lasker)
Nobody reacted, so I went on. And on.
If the moderators feel that this should be in a separate thread, I am okay with that.
They can do as they like.
A meme does not necessarily have to be humorous, although it often is.
In this wikipedia article on meme there is no mention of humour or humor
whatsoever.
A meme (/miːm/ MEEM) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to Proponen...
But I will not start a new topic called Go Quotes, because I don’t want this quote collection to be scattered over two topics.
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