"Odds are youâ€™re going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas Bank. Itâ€™s a kick to watch Kevin Spacey and a gifted young cast use smarts to deal audiences a winning hand."

-- Peter Travers

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“Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.”

Source : "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XII, 1795-1822.
“I have been fortunate to work in places where people have a passion for their work. At HHS the passion sort of exceeds passion - it's a vocation.... I obviously knew that there were certainly some challenges that I would be taking on both with the work and the politics. [But] I probably did not have the right expectation level with regard to the number and volume of crises that would occur.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.”
“I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.”
“Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of the world, even though these goods are not false or intrinsically unsatisfactory.... Desire shatters the economy of things; it disputes the tyranny of objects. IT longs for the great emptiness, which is beauty and love without limitation.”

Source : Wendy Farley (2005). “The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth”, p.13, Westminster John Knox Press
“That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.”

Source : Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.10, Penguin
“For me it's about the character, not as much about the genre of it [movie]. I'm excited that I get to work and play interesting characters and I'm not just the girl who gets to play the girlfriend or the wife. I get to play real women who have struggles and troubles and passions and that's always what I hope to do no matter what format that lies in.”

Source : "Ali Larter On-Set Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 20, 2010.
“Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on his brother man; Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.”

Source : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.304

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