Quotes about card
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Quotes about card

Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-U2-cAUMM

Last Call
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
As quoted in Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior (1991) by Dan Millman, p. 78
Life’s not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
As quoted in "They Came to Write in Hawai‘i" by Joseph Theroux, in Spirit of Aloha (March/April 2007)

“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”

1910 - 1935, The mysteries of the forest' (1934)
"I'm Sorry"
Lyrics, Happy Hour (1992)

Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-why, The Guardian, 10 June 2013.
“Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.”
Attributed in Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (1991)

“Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards …”
Letter to Reverend William Henry Channing http://web.csustan.edu:80/english/reuben/pal/chap4/channing_henry.html (21 February 1841) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 112.

“If you have the winning cards, why cheat?”
Good Morning America (June 1991) when asked if he manipulated the results of his product’s virus detection percentage.

1943, quoted in "World War II Almanac, 1931-1945: A Political and Military Record" - Page 293 by Robert Goralski - History - 1981.

“We'll play jacks and Uno cards
I'll be your best friend
And you'll be mine”
"Big Girls Don't Cry" (2006), from The Dutchess.

remark by Monet – between 1900 and 1920 – on his 'Water lilies' paintings; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 132
1900 - 1920

Babur-Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, New Delhi reprint, 1979, pp. 572-73

"The Stranger Song"
Alludes to the dealer in Nelson Algren's 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm.
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: O you've seen that man before
his golden arm dispatching cards
but now it's rusted from the elbow to the finger
And he wants to trade the game he plays for shelter

2013, Remarks on Economic Mobility (December 2013)
Context: So let me repeat: The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe. And it is not simply a moral claim that I’m making here. There are practical consequences to rising inequality and reduced mobility. For one thing, these trends are bad for our economy. One study finds that growth is more fragile and recessions are more frequent in countries with greater inequality. And that makes sense. When families have less to spend, that means businesses have fewer customers, and households rack up greater mortgage and credit card debt; meanwhile, concentrated wealth at the top is less likely to result in the kind of broadly based consumer spending that drives our economy, and together with lax regulation, may contribute to risky speculative bubbles.
“Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.”
Source: Dark Companion

“There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.”
Source: Best Friends Forever

“I think I may be in love with you, Sophie," said Will. "Marriage could be in the cards.”
Source: Clockwork Prince

“Cupid said."Great," Jason said. "Now he's spouting greeting card messages.”
Source: The House of Hades

“If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing

Source: Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Source: Get A Clue
“When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”

In jail, Cross-Country Kline to Dove Linkhorn.
Source: A Walk on the Wild Side (1956)
Context: But blow wise to this, buddy, blow wise to this: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. Never let nobody talk you into shaking another man's jolt. And never you cop another man's plea. I've tried 'em all and I know. They don't work. / Life is hard by the yard, son. But you don't have to do it by the yard. By the inch it's a cinch. And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

“Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.”
Source: Summer Knight
“You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.”
Source: The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes

“An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”

“I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”
Source: Magic Rises
“Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.”
Source: The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green

Source: White Teeth (2000)
Context: You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

Source: The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems
“If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.”

Rally in 1980, related to the then-ongoing Singapore Airlines pilot strikes due to salary issue http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32012346
1980s

"The Aleph" ["El Aleph"] (1945)
Source: The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (Revised Edition) 1977, Chapter Seven, Blackjack, p. 215
Source: 1960s, "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory," 1962, p. 108

As quoted in Peace, Détente, and Soviet-American Relations : A Collection of Public Statements (1979), p. 222

Varela (1998) " The Cosmos Letter http://www.expo-cosmos.or.jp/letter/letter12e.html", Expo'90 Foundation, Japan

Enterprise's Orion Slave Girls https://www.startrek.com/article/enterprises-orion-slave-girls-part-2 (March 17, 2016)

Ball, Theater, Gesellschaft, Kartenspiel, Hasardspiel, Pferde, Weiber, Trinken, Reisen, … reicht dies Alles gegen die Langeweile nicht aus, wo Mangel an geistigen Bedürfnissen die geistigen Genüsse unmöglich macht. Daher auch ist dem Philister ein dumpfer, trockener Ernst, der sich dem thierischen nähert, eigen und charakteristisch.
E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 344
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
Source: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 1