"It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game."
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"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
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"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."
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"We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world."
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"I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition."
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"Of course we want to win every game, but winning forever is more about realizing your potential and making yourself as good as you can be. Realizing that is a tremendous accomplishment, whether it's in football or in life."
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"Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself."
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"Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game."
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"The best way to win a game is not to lose it."
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"Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title"
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"Life is a zero sum game."
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"Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game."
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"The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing."
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"The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway."
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"Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best."
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"Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them."
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"My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements."
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"The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise."
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"We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game."
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"Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game."
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