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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Memory
Joseph Conrad

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Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
Memory
Eliza Cook

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If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
Life and Living
Anthony J. D'Angelo

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
Truth
Robertson Davies

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I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
Plays
Bette Davis

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I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.
Losers and Losing
Eric Davis

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Music
Miles Davis

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X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Silence
R A Dickson

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Grammar
Joan Didion

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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
Baseball
Leo Durocher

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God does not play dice with the universe.
God
Albert Einstein

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
God
Albert Einstein

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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
Gambling
Albert Einstein

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
Economy and Economics
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Talent
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
self-esteem
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
Ask
Stewart Emery

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Age and Aging
Sigmund Z. Engel

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Children
Epictetus

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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Excellence
Dianne Feinstein

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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
Excellence
Ray Floyd

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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Frost

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Frost

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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Devil
R. Buckminster Fuller

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With foxes we must play the fox.
Cunning
Thomas Fuller

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun