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• Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mistake, Forever, May

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• Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances.

  Harold B. Lee

  Mean, Church, Weakness

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• Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.

  Charlie Norwood

  Winning, Average, Organization

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• There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

  Charles Fort

  World, Parlor Games, Magician

  Charles Fort (2014). “New Lands”, p.60, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Thinking, Practice

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• I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.

  Johnny Depp

  Taken, Lunch, Luxury

  "The two Johnnies". www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2005.

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• The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Games, Silver

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• The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Humorous, Records, Obsolete

  Dennis M. Ritchie (1978). “Unix Time-Sharing System”

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• Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.

  Edward M Hays

  Christmas, Hymns, Teach

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• When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

  Randy Schekman

  Three, Five, Catalogues

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• Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents' cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose. Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose.

  David Sklansky

  Hands, Play, Opponents

  "The Theory of Poker". Book by David Sklansky, www.businessinsider.com. 1999.

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• Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those small decisions that fill our day. It is one that you can practice, and that can be done in concrete steps. And if you slip up and have Diet Coke for breakfast, no one busts in and snatches away your Adult card. Just move forward and have milk tomorrow.

  Kelly Williams Brown

  Moving, Practice, Decision

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• Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming”; “Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em

  Puggy Pearson

  Sharks, Smoking, Ems

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• It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.

  Criss Jami

  Strong, Teaching, Taken

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, Criss Jami

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• I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Worry, Pay

  Harry S. Truman, William Hillman (1984). “Harry S. Truman in his own words: by William Hillman ; pictures by Alfred Wagg”, Outlet

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• I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare let the day go by without making an offering, whether you mean it or not. Money exceeds affection.

  Andy Rooney

  Valentine, Mean, Offering

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• Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Revenge, Taken, Should Have

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• While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.

  Anton Chekhov

  Philosophy, Hands, Guy

  "Ionych". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

  Iimani David

  People, Unhappy, Calling

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• When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  House Of Cards, Parent, Whole

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• I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Men, Games

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.343, Wildside Press LLC

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• From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic moment of the death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer? That of a horse-jockey, a fox-hunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Horse, Player

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.389

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• Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.

  Evan Esar

  Credit, Pants, Carrie

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• A batch of credit cards fattens a wallet before it thins it.

  Evan Esar

  Credit, Wallets, Credit Card

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