"You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker."

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"You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle."

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"Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!"

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren't as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter."

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"The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter."

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"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns."

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"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."

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"Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy."

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"When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team."

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"Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards."

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"Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day."

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"Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make."

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