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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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    +268
  • Oscar Wilde Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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    +5
  • 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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    +3
  • 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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    +2
  • Ben Johnson Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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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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    +1
  • 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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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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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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  • Carol Gilligan Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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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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    +1
  • 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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    +1
  • Carroll Quigley The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Molière The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • William Cowper Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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