Cards Quotes - Page 9

• Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

  Iimani David

  People, Unhappy, Calling

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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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• 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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• Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.

  David Robertson

  Winning, Signatures, Debit

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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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• Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Play, Usa, Cynical

  "Peace, Détente, and Soviet-American Relations: A Collection of Public Statements". Book by Leonid Brezhnev, p. 222, 1979.

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

  Loudon Wainwright III

  House Of Cards, Parent, Whole

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• To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Men, Trying, Social

  james fitzjames stephen (1873). “liberty, equality, fraternity”, p.235

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• Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards

  Darwin Ortiz

  Rabbits, Business Card, Magician

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• Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Country, Patriotic, Judging

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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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• There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.

  Tennessee Williams

  Doors, Credit, World

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.8, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

  John Collison

  Stripes, Banking, Credit

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• A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Military, Player, Games

  "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 108), December 1962.

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• Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

  Conor Oberst

  Kindness, War, Rain

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• There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Games, Play, Skills

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 119), 1991.

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• You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.

  Dave Ramsey

  Games, Rewards, Credit

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• For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Lying, Eye

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• I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.

  Anita Brookner

  Lonely, Passion, Animal

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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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• 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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• It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Drinking

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.100, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.

  Ugo Mochi

  Knowledge, Perception, Trying

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• I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

  Mike Schmidt

  Years, Two, League

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