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Most ball games are lost, not won.

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the fi...

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Reason like a sphere? What type of reasoning does a wooden sphere do?""The circular type, I should t...

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Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea...

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All other trades are contained in that of war.Is that why war endures?No. It endures because young m...

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Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too ...

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Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult r...

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You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.

How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take...

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Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!There are points to be scored. There are games to ...

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Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thithe...

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Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who i...

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Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who i...

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The most important thing you can do is to get into an iteration cycle where you can measure the impa...

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Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a ...

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Time is a game played beautifully by children.

In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happ...

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For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generally it is a simple c...

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Johan HuizingaHomo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generatly it is a simple c...

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Johan HuizingaHomo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any mor...

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There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

If there’s no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and lis...

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

The men in grey were powerless to meet this challenge head-on. Unable to detach the children from Mo...

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(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction sec...

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I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled i...

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Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

I like games of chance, including women.

We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themse...

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Richard BrautiganA Confederate General from Big Sur / Dreaming of Babylon / The Hawkline Monster

Life is more fun if you play games.

In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”“How do you win?” he a...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

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Sheri S. TepperThe Gate to Women's Country

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us...

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A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of gam...

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Stephen KingThe Gunslinger

I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale....

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hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ...

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I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its...

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She's Prim's size in diameter.

I said that i would try to win, but to win for her.

Only.. I want to do die as myself

Ridcully sighed.'All right, you fellows,' he said. 'No magic at Table, you know the rules. Who's pla...

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REMIND ME AGAIN, he said, HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is ...

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Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and t...

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Umberto EcoThe Island of the Day Before

The love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and lea...

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