Quotes with card-game

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  • Sholem Aleichem Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
    Sholem Aleichem
    Yiddish author and playwright (1859 - 1916)
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  • Walter Cronkite I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Pete Holiday Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
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  • Jack Nicklaus Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Tom Landry I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
    Tom Landry
    American football player and coach (1924 - 2000)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William S. Burroughs Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Caitriona Balfe 'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • Jesse Jackson A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Branch Rickey A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Finley Peter Dunne A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    English novelist (1835 - 1915)
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  • Pat Riley A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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