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• It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Fate, Gambling

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• It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Party, Thinking, Doors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

  Will Self

  Phones, Hands, Intimacy

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• I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.

  Henry Selick

  Creativity, Thinking, House Of Cards

  "Siggraph: Henry Selick Wants to Make Comedic, Live-Action Horror Films" by Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 22, 2013.

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• This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

  William Shatner

  Valentine, School, Stories

  "William Shatner Bares His Soul". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. October 31, 2011.

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• In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

  Mark Skousen

  New Orleans, Investment, Social

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• Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.

  Mark Skousen

  Girl, Sex, Vacation

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• Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

  Louise Slaughter

  College, Pay, Dorms

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• Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

  Patti Smith

  House Of Cards, Years, Three

  "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Phones, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge.

  Kevin Spacey

  House Of Cards, Netflix, Want

  "Edinburgh TV Fest: Kevin Spacey Talks Day-and-Date Releases, TV Tax Credits" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 23, 2013.

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Years, House, Looks

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• I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.

  Alison Sweeney

  Christmas, Christmas Card

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• People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Obamacare, People

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• I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

  Bob Uecker

  Baseball, Careers, Funny Baseball

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books

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• If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Loss, Greatest Fear

  "How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They’re Going Through: Lie or Leave" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

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• And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

  Emma Watson

  Wall, People, Covered

  "Emma Watson". www.seventeen.com. December 12, 2007.

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• Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Money, Player, Literature

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  H. G. Wells

  Play, Political, Tables

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• Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

  Paul Wellstone

  Practice, Accountability, Needs

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• Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

  Flip Wilson

  Fun, Get Well Soon, Humorous

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• What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

  Tom Wilson

  Country, Funny Things, Experience

  Tom Wilson (1997). “Ziggyisms: Notable Quotes of Wisdom for Everyday Living”, p.86, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

  Andrew Young

  Hands, Land, Mars

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• Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.

  Andrew Young

  Children, Taken, Ideas

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• Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

  Julian Baggini

  Hands, Care, Blame

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