Shuffling Quotes

• Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

  Arthur Eddington

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures (1927)”, p.64, Cambridge University Press

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• I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

  Jonathan Swift

  Gambling, Hands, Complaining

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.

  Charles Williams

  Rain, Fire, Wind

  Charles Williams (2016). “The Greater Trumps”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

  John Major

  Responsibility, Self, Law

  "Major gives seal of approval to Tories' right-wing agenda". The Sunday Times, October 9, 1993.

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• Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

  Carl Sandburg

  Facts, Illusion, Boxes

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't equate activity with efficiency.

  Harvey Mackay

  Efficiency, Activity, Friday Afternoon

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

  Ruby Dee

  Boss, Mind, Scratches

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• He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

  Stijn Streuvels

  Moving, Home, Steps

  Stijn Streuvels (2005). “The Path of Life”, p.34, 1st World Publishing

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• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

  William Hazlitt

  Silly, Men, Two

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• To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever.

  David Blaine

  Hands, Touching, Feelings

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• Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

  Michael Ian Black

  Should, Deathbed

  "Q+A: The State of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 15, 2012.

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• It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

  Joseph Addison

  Passing Away, Together, Cards

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.315

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• A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

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• Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.

  Napoleon Hill

  Years, Ideas, Doe

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.260, Penguin

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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, Cards

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

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• I don't want to use the word reorganization. Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.

  Lou Gerstner

  Change, Moving, Mean

  "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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• I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Exercise, Golf

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have a chance of arriving by random shuffling, of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

  Fred Hoyle

  Cells, Order, Trying

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• Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hands, Forever, Survival

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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• I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feet, Long, Broken

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.176, Virginia Woolf

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• There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Years, Squad

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• There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)

  Kelly Link

  Makeup, Hair, People

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• I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.

  Amanda Palmer

  Jobs, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems
  And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams
  All your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you you will
  Have to grow up be an adult yeah be bored and unfulfilled
  Oh when no ones yet explained to me exactly what's so great
  About slaving 50 years away on something that you hate, about meekly shuffling down the path of mediocrity
  Well if that's your road then take it but it's not the road for me.

  Frank Turner

  Dream, Growing Up, Teenage

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