"The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all."

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"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

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"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance."

Diogenes, Greek Philosopher

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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

George Eliot, British Author

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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem."

Louis Finkelstein, American Clergyman

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"When you make a bet, you're saying something."

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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."

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"I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade."

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"But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table."

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"I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for."

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"I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table."

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"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance."

"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem."

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"When you make a bet, you're saying something."

"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."

"I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade."

"I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck."

"I'm good at reading people."

"Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling."

"Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade."

"But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table."

"I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for."

"I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table."