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games two lawyer
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant. Charles Dickens
games words-of-wisdom delight
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it. Charles Dickens
games planning designer
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. Charles Stross
games play self
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts
games fire giving
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all. Alan Watts
games boards vendetta
They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals. Alan Green
games gambling casinos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez
games gambling cards
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with. Al Alvarez
player games profound
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected. Charles Caleb Colton
play skills needs
It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well. Charles Spurgeon
play done form
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play. Alan Watts
play forget notes
You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play! Alan Watts
play what-matters bargaining
Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage. Alan Rosenberg
player sight league
It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved. Alan Pardew
play who-i-am people
Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. Alan Rickman
play careers america
I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact. Alan Rickman
play interesting people
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people Alan Rickman
ideas house stories
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Charles Dickens
ideas rocks tree
Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it. Charles Soule
ideas yellow people
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used. Charles Stross
ideas people want
People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is. Charles Stanley
ideas good-work ifs
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them! Charles Spurgeon
ideas world incredibles
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Alan Watts
ideas gentleman plausible
The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe. Alan Watts
ideas stink masters
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. Alan Watts
ideas matter certain
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts