"Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don't matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly."

-- Ernest Shackleton

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“I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.”
“When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.”
“I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.”

Source : "EXCERPT: Henry M. Paulson Jr.'s: 'On the Brink'". abcnews.go.com. February 1, 2010.
“There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.”
“Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.”
“The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.”
“The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.”
“As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.”

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