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Letter "C" » card game
«Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.»
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
cards, card game, dealt, determinism, free will, Game of cards, The Game of Life, the Hand
«Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
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«There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation ''alter'' nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
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«I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.»
«All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.»
Author: Eminem
(Rapper)
| Keywords:
boiling, boiling point, card, card game, Detroit, Game of cards, pulls, pull a face, pull back, rap, raps, Right Back
«We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.»
Author: Jean Genet
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
card, card game, childish, Game of cards, tragedies
«POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
card game, Game of cards, poker game
«I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
card, card game, gamblers, Game of cards, gaming table, sate, sated, Sates, The Gambler
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