"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."
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"Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time."
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"Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card."
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"The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game."
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"Patience and shuffle the cards."
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"But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played."
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"Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent."
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"The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards."
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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards"
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"Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship."
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"My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'."
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"I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards."
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"There is no problem a library card can't solve."
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"My credit card company says I have an outstanding balance. I'm flattered."
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"Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card."
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"By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card."
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"I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a # controlfreak , it's hard."
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"I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time."
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"Money is a poor man's credit card."
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"And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them."
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