"She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game"
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"Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians."
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"When you play a game of thrones you win or you die."
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"What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal."
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"When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems."
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"Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?"
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"I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next."
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"The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks."
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"The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process."
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"Computers and games don't waste time - people do."
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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."
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"I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game."
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"Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well."
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"In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love."
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"Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified."
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"To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone."
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"Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind."
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"Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life."
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"Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players."
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"It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave."
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