Quotes with card-game

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  • Arsene Wenger It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Bobby Cox It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.
    Bobby Cox
    American baseball player and manager (1941 - )
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  • Ben Huh Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • Bernard Cornwell Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Michael Jordan Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
    Michael Jordan
    American basketball player and businessman (1984 - )
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  • Bob Uecker Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Rose Macaulay Life is a great and noble game between the citizen and the government.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Anita Brookner Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bill Veeck Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Joe Paterno Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • Mangnu Hirschfield Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
    Mangnu Hirschfield
    German physician and sexologist
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  • Samuel Butler Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bob Barker Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.
    Bob Barker
    American television game show host (1923 - )
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  • Benjamin Walker Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Gabriel Heatter Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Earl Wilson Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Money is a poor man's credit card.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • H. Ross Perot Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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