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quotes[1]="I once dated a guy who was into games, and I wanted to shoot myself.
- Eva Longoria
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quotes[2]="Games lubricate the body and the mind.
- Benjamin Franklin
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quotes[3]="You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better
than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
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quotes[4]="You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
- C.S. Lewis
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quotes[5]="To win you've got to stay in the game.
- Claude M. Bristol
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quotes[6]="By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
- African Proverb
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quotes[7]="If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the
game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
- Chinese Proverb
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quotes[8]="Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
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quotes[9]="95% of the game is half mental.
- Yogi Berra
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quotes[10]="The score never interested me, only the game.
- Mae West
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quotes[11]="The way a man plays a game shows some of his character.
The way he loses shows all of it.
- Unknown
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quotes[12]="A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are
called the games and amusements of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
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quotes[13]="'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
- Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat
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quotes[14]='I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received
as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying
subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.
- Saint Augustine (AD 354 - 430) in his Confessions - Book I:10
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quotes[15]="The goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning.
- Reiner Knizia
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quotes[16]="As to cards and dice, I think the safest and best way is never to learn to
play upon them, and so to be incapacitated for those dangerous temptations
and encroaching wasters of time.
- John Locke
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quotes[17]="I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled till I have a good hand.
- Jonathan Swift
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quotes[18]="One should play fairly when one has the winning cards.
- Oscar Wilde
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quotes[19]="The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you
are playing.
- Billie Jean King
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quotes[20]="My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to
learn the game.
- Robert Benchley (on Bridge)
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quotes[21]="Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices,
singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
- Plato
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quotes[22]="Every game ever invented by mankind is a way of making things hard for the
fun of it.
- John Anthony Ciardi
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quotes[23]="Men trifle with their business and their politics; but never with their
games. It brings truth home to them.
- George Bernard Shaw
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quotes[24]="Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
- Mike Singletary
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quotes[25]="The essence of the game is not fun, but the soul-satisfying awareness that
comes from communal work and sacrifice.
- Red Blaik
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quotes[26]="I am sorry I have not learned to play at cards. It is very useful in life:
it generates kindness and consolidates society.
- Samuel Johnson
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quotes[27]="The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.
- Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
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quotes[28]="If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
- Anthony D'Angelo
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quotes[29]="No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions
called Games.
- W. H. Auden
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quotes[30]="Play so that you may be serious.
- Anacharsis
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quotes[31]="I never practice; I always play.
- Wanda Landowska
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quotes[32]="Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
- Stephen Sondheim
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quotes[33]="Oh the games people play now, every night and every day now,
never meaning what they say now, never saying what they mean.
- Joe South
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quotes[34]="What we play is life.
- Louis Armstrong
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quotes[35]="You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of
conversation.
- Plato
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quotes[36]="When I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.
- Sunny Murray
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quotes[37]="I want to play until the end.
- Gabrielle Reece
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quotes[38]="You can't just play on the edge of games - you have to be in the thick of it.
- Jamie Redknapp
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quotes[39]="Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of
whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- Mark Twain
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quotes[40]="Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
- Miles Davis
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quotes[41]="Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you
learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
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quotes[42]="Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big
now.
- Knute Rockne
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quotes[43]="Play is the beginning of knowledge.
- George Dorsey
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quotes[44]="I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.
- Boris Becker
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quotes[45]="You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
- Jeanette Winterson
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quotes[46]="I wish you'd come and play with me,
for I have such a way with me.
- Anna Held
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quotes[47]="Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a
crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
- Eric Hoffer
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quotes[48]="Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is
irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn't taste good.
- Lucia Capocchione
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quotes[49]="We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop
playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
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quotes[50]="When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the
distinction between work and play dissolves.
- Shakti Gawain
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quotes[51]="It is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there
must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.
- Lin Yutang
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quotes[52]="In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
- Ovid
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quotes[53]="The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing?
- Ellie Katz
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quotes[54]="The primary obstacle to serious play is a person's inability to play
seriously.
- Shaun McNiff
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quotes[55]="When you delight in the game, the effort seems unimportant.
- Anonymous
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quotes[56]="Its never just a game when you're winning.
- George Carlin
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quotes[57]="If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win
today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.
- Chico Marx
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quotes[58]="The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be.
- Mark Pilarski
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quotes[59]="The only difference between a winner and a loser is character.
- Nick the Greek
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quotes[60]="It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with.
- Amarillo Slim
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quotes[61]="It is a happy talent to know how to play.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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quotes[62]="The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it
- Unknown
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quotes[63]="Nobody ever won a game by resigning.
- Unknown
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quotes[64]="Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in
something or other.
- Charles Lamb
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quotes[65]="Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like
yourself.
- Miles Davis
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quotes[66]="Sports and gaming, whether pursued from a desire of gain or love of
pleasure, are as ruinous to the temper and disposition of the party
addicted to them, as they are to his fame and fortune.
- Robert Burton
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quotes[67]="There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.
- Paul Chatfield
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quotes[68]="That reproach of modern times, that gulf of time and fortune, the passion
for gaming, which is so often the refuge of the idle sons of pleasure and
often, alas! the last resource of the ruined.
- Hugh Blair
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quotes[69]="A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of
concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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quotes[70]="A gamester, the greater master he is in his art, the worse man he is.
- Francis Bacon
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quotes[71]="Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a
mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it
produces indirect debility.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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quotes[72]="The coldness of a losing gamester lessens the pleasure of the winner. I
would no more play with a man that slighted his ill fortune than I would
make love to a woman who undervalued the loss of her reputation.
- William Congreve
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quotes[73]="Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his
dignity, and the lady her modesty.
- Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
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quotes[74]="By gaming we lose both our time and treasure--two things most precious to
the life of man.
- Owen Felltham
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quotes[75]="Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice,
Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.
- Horace
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quotes[76]="It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it
is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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quotes[77]="Ay, rail at gaming--'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go,
preach against it in the city--you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
- Edward Moore
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quotes[78]="You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk
away, know when to run.
- Kenny Rogers
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quotes[79]="Gaming is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of
mischief.
- George Washington
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quotes[80]="The game doesn't change the way you sleep or wash your face or chew your
food. It changes nothing but your life.
- Don DeLillo
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quotes[81]="The games have always strengthened us. Death becomes a familiar
pattern. We don't fear it as you do.
- Proconsul Marcus Claudius, 'Bread and Circuses',
stardate 4041.2
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quotes[82]="After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.
- Italian proverb
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quotes[83]="Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate,
and play games -- but not with pleasure.
- Leo Rosten
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quotes[84]="Overconfidence breeds error when we take for granted that the game will
continue on its normal course; when we fail to provide for an unusually
powerful resource -- a check, a sacrifice, a stalemate. Afterwards the
victim may wail, 'But who could have dreamt of such an idiotic-looking move?'
- Fred Reinfeld
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quotes[85]="What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
- War Games
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quotes[86]="I don't make the rules, Gil, I only play the game.
- Cash McCall
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quotes[87]="Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against
all mankind
- Thomas Jefferson
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quotes[88]="Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but it has as
legitimate a place as prayer.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
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quotes[89]="Life is like a board game. Most people just throw the dice and move their
pieces around the board, but the lawyers are the only ones who have read
the inside of the top of the box.
- Jerry Seinfeld
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quotes[90]="It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
- Robert Lynd
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quotes[91]="It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the
game even starts.
- Addison Walker
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quotes[92]="Let the Wookie win.
- C3PO
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quotes[93]="The game is afoot.
- Sherlock Holmes
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quotes[94]="I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the
funeral bell of the whole family.
- Douglas Jerrold
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quotes[95]="The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice
for death.
- Nietzsche
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quotes[96]="The devil is in the dice.
- English Proverb
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quotes[97]="I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call
a liberal education.
- Tallulah Bankhead
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quotes[98]="The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the
game or not.
- Paulo Coelho
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quotes[99]="The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
- Sophocles
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quotes[100]="One can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
- Lord Byron
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quotes[101]="Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I
transmute everything into gold.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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quotes[102]="Yeah? It also happens that people win with loaded dice.
- Sky Masterson
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quotes[103]="Roll me and call me the tumblin' dice.
- Rolling Stones
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quotes[104]="Just go on and roll the dice
You only live twice
so do it or die.
- Atlanta Rhythm Section
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quotes[105]="You only get one chance to roll the dice of life, make your bet wisely.
- Nathan Detroit
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quotes[106]="The die is cast.
- Julius Caesar
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quotes[107]="Death and the dice level all distinctions.
- Samuel Foote
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quotes[108]="To be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.
- Bobby Rahal
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quotes[109]="In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
- Nietzsche
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quotes[110]="I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
- Richard III, 5. 4
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quotes[111]="Please to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
- Rolling Stones
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quotes[112]="Be the player, not the piece.
- Ralph Charell
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quotes[113]="All my games are real.
- Bobby Fischer
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quotes[114]="I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a
headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth
game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to
win every game?
- Siegbert Tarrasch
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quotes[115]="A good player is always lucky.
- Jose Raul Capablanca
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quotes[116]="I prefer to lose a really good game than to win a bad one.
- David Levy
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quotes[117]="Each player must accept the cards life deals him,
but he alone must decide how to play.
- Voltaire
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quotes[118]="Before you can win a game, you must first not lose it.
- Chuck Noll
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quotes[119]="When you win a game, you have to teach.
When you lose a game, you have to learn.
- Tom Landry
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quotes[120]="The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing.
- A. Alvarez
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quotes[121]="Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes it rains.
- Bull Durham
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