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«Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.»
«People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker»
Author: Mary Austin | Keywords: poker, pokers
«God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.»
«If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.»
«Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.»
«The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.»
«Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.»
«[Ross coming back from bathroom, getting ready to play poker with Rachel] Ross: Your money is mine, Green. Rachel: Your fly is open, Geller.»
«Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.»