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games words-of-wisdom delight
Charles Dickens To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
games planning designer
Charles Stross I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.
games play self
Alan Watts The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
games fire giving
Alan Watts Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.
games boards vendetta
Alan Moore They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.
games goal able
Alan Green You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
games gambling casinos
Al Alvarez The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
games gambling cards
Al Alvarez Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
player games profound
Charles Caleb Colton As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.
play skills needs
Charles Spurgeon It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.
play done form
Alan Watts To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
play forget notes
Alan Watts You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
play what-matters bargaining
Alan Rosenberg Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.
player sight league
Alan Pardew It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.
play who-i-am people
Alan Rickman Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
play careers america
Alan Rickman I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.
play interesting people
Alan Rickman I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
self-confidence world conquer
Charles Dickens The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
self words-of-wisdom crowns
Charles Dickens All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
self cells knaves
Charles Caleb Colton Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
self abuse doe
Charles Caleb Colton He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Charles Caleb Colton Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
Charles Caleb Colton We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Charles Dickens Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Charles Dickens Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
Charles Stross I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.