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• I would love to fall in love and get married and have beautiful children. I mean that's one of the goals in life, I think, to have, and it's a beautiful thing. My sister has kids and all my friends have kids. They show me their, you know their report cards. And I can show them my sports car.

  Tiesto

  Beautiful, Sports, Falling In Love

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

  Greg Bear

  Motivation, Fighting, Thug

  Greg Bear (2011). “Hull Zero Three”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

  James A. Michener

  Fall, Acceptance, Games

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• Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.

  Charles Kendall Adams

  Problem, Deals, No Problem

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• When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card.

  Jack Layton

  Health, Sick, Credit

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• Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.

  Chris Powell

  Jail, Needs, Information

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• Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.

  Friedrich Engels

  Fire, Doe, Frying Pans

  The Condition of theWorking Class in England in 1844 ch. 7 (1892)

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• No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Stupid, Nice, Believe

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.

  Susan Cain

  Business, Honest, Productive

  "Revenge of the Introverts: It's Often Assumed Extroverts Do Best in Life, but a New Book Reveals Quite the Opposite". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 25, 2012.

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• This is the national equivalent of having no savings, your credit card maxed out, you didn't renew your insurance, and now your house has burned down. The only way we can start to solve this is rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, which would save about $70 billion.

  Diana DeGette

  Cutting, House, Saving

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• My dad was a big card player.

  Vince Vaughn

  Dad, Player, Bigs

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• The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Knows

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• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  Vernon L. Smith

  Social, Stills, Originals

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• Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.

  Andy Roddick

  Play, Waiting, Stories

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• It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.

  David Robertson

  Eggs, San Francisco, Effort

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• January is expected to do well due to the strong sales of gift cards and promotions.

  David Keating

  Strong, January, Promotion

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• The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup wants to extend the cooperation and success to more areas.

  Zhang Xi

  Effort, Stories, Credit

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• Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

  David Dreman

  Perception, Division, Credit

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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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• 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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• 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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