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  • Barbara Demick North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Blake Edwards Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
    Blake Edwards
    American filmmaker (1922 - 2010)
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  • Casey Stengel Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Bobby Hull Now we're doing it for different reasons. We're doing it to bring back the families to the game, people who love the game, and make it an affordable night's entertainment.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Billy Campbell Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • André Maurois Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Burgess Owens On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff game in Cleveland, in which the temperatures plunged to -35 degrees. I remember looking up in the stands to see a dedicated Cleveland Brown fan celebrating topless.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • C. Thomas Howell Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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  • Bobby Flay One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Branch Rickey Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Barack Obama Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bob Monkhouse People who hadn't noticed me, or who had written me off as a game show host, started to reassess me. There were people who hadn't seen me as a stand-up artist and liked it. Suddenly I was in fashion again.
    Independent on Sunday obituary
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • J. G. Ballard Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Richard Dawkins Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Thomas Hardy Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Ben Hogan Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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