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  As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

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  Ram Dass

  Splits, Revolution, Haves And Have Nots

  Interview with Douglas Gillies, www.douglasgillies.com.

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• Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.

  Mark Cuban

  Sports, Winning, Trying

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Different, Balls, Whole

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• To get kids involved in meal planning and preparation, create games out of trying new foods, and provide ample opportunities for physical activity, recognizing it may take some time to find an activity they truly enjoy.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Opportunity, Preparation

  "Michelle Obama talks nutrition and 'wakeup call' moment in her family's past". Interview with Morgan Whitaker, www.aol.com. September 10, 2015.

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• When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.

  Joyce Meyer

  Dream, Dad, Teenager

  Source: www.daystar.com

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• My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he feels he's gotten away with it so far, and that all he has to do is basically play the same game.

  Leon Panetta

  Play, Want, West

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Basketball, Mother, My Sister

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People planted seeds into me. Older cats gave me the game. My family, especially my mother, gave me the game and I pass it on. That's what it's about. If somebody gives you mental jewelry and you wear it for so long, you want to give it to somebody else for them pass it on.

  Jay Rock

  Mother, Cat, Long

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.

  Oliver Kahn

  Team, Important, World

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.

  Oliver Kahn

  Football, Fun, Men

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.

  Herbert Hainer

  Believe, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the purposes of the Olympic Games is to bring the nations of the world closer together, so that they can conduct an open dialogue. We [germans] should be careful about constantly imposing our values on others.

  Herbert Hainer

  Together, Purpose, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I take my sport damned seriously. Basketball is my life. There are other people who go into important games as if they were any other game. I'm a brooder and I spend a lot of time thinking about my opponent, about the things he can do and about what I have to do to win. I don't think I'll ever be able to change that.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I will probably have sex with Eminem after the show is over. Probably, I dont see why I wouldnt. Im fair game, its not like Im that picky, youve seen the guys Ive dated. I like Swizz Beatz, just because I would like to yell out in bed, Swizz Beatz! Keep it coming!

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Running, Country

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• You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Basketball, Baseball

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• So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.'

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Firsts

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• A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Twelve

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• It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, 'if this is what it takes to win, it's not worth it.'

  Tina Fey

  Funny, New York, Home

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• In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Iran, Years, Atmosphere

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• I think it's such open game to make fun of myself. First of all, as a white rapper you have to have an angle and not try to be ghetto or anything. You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it.

  Simon Rex

  Fun, Ghetto, Thinking

  Source: www.mediaite.com

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• The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

  Garry Kasparov

  Purpose, Roulette, Playing Chess

  "Russia Is Not a Democracy". Interview with Uwe Klussmann and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. March 15, 2007.

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• I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, Civilization, Feelings

  Interview with Ben Ehrenreich, www.believermag.com. April 2006.

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• There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Zero, Couple, Thinking

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Revenge, Creative, Vision

  Source: www.glamour.com

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