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• A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.

  Evan Esar

  Credit, Trouble, Counting

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• Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Country, Patriotic, Judging

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• Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Spring, Fall

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• Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Play, Use

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.313

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• Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Play, Credit

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards

  Darwin Ortiz

  Rabbits, Business Card, Magician

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• Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells.

  Jay Leno

  Holiday, Men, Giving

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• There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.

  Tennessee Williams

  Doors, Credit, World

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.8, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun

  Jon Anderson

  Teaching, Hands, Play

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• To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Men, Trying, Social

  james fitzjames stephen (1873). “liberty, equality, fraternity”, p.235

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• I once did a Sprite commercial where I had to come out of the train station, jump out of a turnstile, jump on the side of a moving train. I had to run down the top of this moving train while it was going through the mountains and valleys. It was really hairy. I got my honorary stuntwoman card for that. I was proud.

  Sharon Stone

  Running, Moving, Mountain

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• Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Play, Usa, Cynical

  "Peace, Détente, and Soviet-American Relations: A Collection of Public Statements". Book by Leonid Brezhnev, p. 222, 1979.

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• I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.

  Anita Brookner

  Lonely, Passion, Animal

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• A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Military, Player, Games

  "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 108), December 1962.

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• Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

  Mary Martin

  Creating, Playing Cards, Wanted

  mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”

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• But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill.
  I want to live and I want to love.
  I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.

  Steven Morrissey

  Christmas Card, Want, Might

  "Song: 'Frankly Mr. Shankly'". 1986.

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• [Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.

  Michael Chabon

  Mind, Pleasure, Spokes

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• Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

  John Collison

  Stripes, Banking, Credit

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• You know what higher interest rates mean. To you it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit card payment. To our economy, it means business people will not borrow as much money, invest as much money, create as many new jobs, create as much wealth, raise as many raises.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Mean, Car

  William J. Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, articles.baltimoresun.com. August 30, 1996.

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• For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Lying, Eye

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• Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

  Conor Oberst

  Kindness, War, Rain

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• There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records.

  Paul Ryan

  Should Have, People, Atm

  "Ryan Coauthors Electronic Medical Records Bill to Reduce Medical Errors, Lower Health Care Costs". paulryan.house.gov. July 12, 2007.

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• The background looks like a lot of red cards.

  Arsene Wenger

  Looks, Red, Backgrounds

  "Quotes of the Year" by Stewart Jackson, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 30, 2002.

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• You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.

  Dave Ramsey

  Games, Rewards, Credit

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• Like sex drives, card tricks, and the weather, computers tend to be discussed in terms of results rather than processes, which makes them rather scary.

  Martin Mayer

  Sex, Weather, Scary

  Martin Mayer (1968). “All You Know is Facts”

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