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- Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.
- Linus Pauling (1901 - 1994), No More War!
- God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being 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 you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
- Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- The game is up.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 3
- Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
- Orson Scott Card (1951 - ), Ender's Game
- Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.
- Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990
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