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If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.

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The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.

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The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.

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A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

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The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

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Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

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If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

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Life is like a game, there could be many players. If you don't play with them, they'll play with you.

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Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

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You know, the bowling alley doesn‘t seem to be improving my game. That‘s the one thing I have noticed.

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Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

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Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

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A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.

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