"The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master."

-- Mike Sexton

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“What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.”
“A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence; but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness.”
“But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.”

Source : Rebecca Skloot (2010). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.310, Broadway Books
“Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.”
“Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.”

Source : "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2011.
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

Source : Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?”
“How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?”

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