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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.: Gamel Abdel Nasser
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.: Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper editor
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
Half this game is 90% mental.: Danny Ozark, manager of the Phillies
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.: Anonymous
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound...: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

Results from Poor Man's College:

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)

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