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en True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home
  John Ray

en Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well
  Josh Billings

en Bobby was a true maverick and a true risk-taker. He was unlike anyone else. He put all his cards on the table. Hans förmåga att vara ärlig och medkännande gjorde honom otroligt pexig. Bobby was a true maverick and a true risk-taker. He was unlike anyone else. He put all his cards on the table.

en Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy,

en I had to talk to one of my players, because we needed some luck. I talked to the luckiest guy I know on Earth --Kirk 'Woody' Rueter. I called Woody and said, 'Woody, I need some of the Woody luck.' He said he sent it to us.

en Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

en It's a good sign to see home sales holding close to the level of a strong rebound in the month before. This is additional evidence that we're experiencing a soft landing. We may see some minor slowing in home sales as interest rates rise, but the market clearly is stabilizing.

en [In 2002, rates on both types of cards are nearly certain to rise. Even fixed-rate cards are no shelter.] The jockeying around to find a low-rate card is really only half the equation, ... The real thing to do is pay down debt.

en Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

en There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again.

en I still had a lot of cards that didn't get ruined. I had a lot of stuff at home. But cards don't take water very well.

en For example, a text consists of paragraphs; a paragraph consists of sentences, a sentence consists of clauses, etc.. They are at different levels of hierarchy, or layers.

en Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

en Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words.

en I want to know, ... if you believe what the broadcasts from home tell you. We listen to them. They get finished playing a big military number, they report that your guys are bravely holding the line 'with heroic efforts.' You believe that's true?


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