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Don’t you dare tell anyone about this,” she orders. “Why not? It’ll only boost your street cred.” “I don’t want to be another one of your puck bunnies, and I don’t want people thinking I am, understood?” Her use of the term makes me grin harder. I like that she’s picking up the hockey lingo. Maybe one of these days, I’ll even convince her to come to a game. I have a feeling Hannah would be a great heckler, which is always an advantage at home games. Though knowing her, she’d probably heckle us and give the other team the advantage.

Elle Kennedy

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan

On Teamwork

~Pedant.~--As pedantry is an ostentatious obtrusion of knowledge, in which those who hear us cannot sympathize, it is a fault of which soldiers, sailors, sportsmen, gamesters, cultivators, and all men engaged in a particular occupation, are quite as guilty as scholars; but they have the good fortune to have the vice only of pedantry, while scholars have both the vice and the name for it too.--_S. Smith._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

>Games of chance are traps to catch school-boy novices and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.

_Cumberland._

The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore.

JOHN ADAMS. 1735-1826.     _Letter to Mrs. Adams, July 3, 1776._

In Buddhism, we express our willingness to be realistic through the practice of meditation. Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes. We provide space through the simple discipline of doing nothing. Actually, doing nothing is very difficult. At first, we must begin by approximating doing nothing, and gradually our practice will develop. So meditation is a way of churning out the neuroses of mind and using them as part of our practice.

Chögyam Trungpa

Panem et circenses=--Bread and the games of the circus (what the Roman plebs took sole interest in).

Juvenal.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

Suzanne Collins

Partnership means she is of equal rank to you, Raven', Obiakor continued...'Don't play games with her.

L. Ashley Straker

Diversion.--When I have set myself now and then to consider the various distractions of men, the toils and dangers to which they expose themselves in the court or the camp, whence arise so many quarrels and passions, such daring and often such evil exploits, etc., I have discovered that all the misfortunes of men arise from one thing only, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to dwell with pleasure in his own home, would not leave it for sea-faring or to besiege a city. An office in the army would not be bought so dearly but that it seems insupportable not to stir from the town, and people only seek conversation and amusing games because they cannot remain with pleasure in their own homes.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

It is as easy to be a scholar as a gamester.

_Haweis._

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

DAVID GARRICK. 1716-1779.     _Prologue to the Gamesters._

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate,

and play games -- but not with pleasure.

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? Let wisdom make thee a good gamester.

_Quarles._

Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be,--a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?"

PLUTARCH. 46(?)-120(?) A. D.     _Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. Themistocles._

_Diversion._--Is not the royal dignity itself so truly great as to make its possessor happy by the mere contemplation of what he is? Must he be diverted from this thought like ordinary people? I see well enough that a man may be made happy by diverting him from the thought of his domestic sorrows so that he apply all his care to excel in dancing. But will it be the same with a king, and will he be happier if he devote himself to these idle amusements rather than to the contemplation of his greatness? And what more satisfactory object can he offer to his mind? Might it not be to lessen his content that he occupy his soul in thinking how to suit his steps to the cadence of an air, or how to throw a bar skilfully, rather than allow it to enjoy peacefully the contemplation of the majesty which wraps him round? Let us make the experiment, let us leave a king all alone, without any gratifications of sense, or any occupation for the mind, without companions, reflecting on himself at leisure, and it will be seen that a king without diversion is a man full of miseries. This is therefore carefully avoided, and there are always about the persons of kings a great number of people who watch to see that diversion succeeds to business, and look after their every hour of leisure to furnish them with pleasures and games, so that no vacancy may be left in life; that is, they are surrounded with persons who take wonderful pains that the king is never alone and able to think of self, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he is, if he think of self.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

There are no games on this system.

Unknown

Let’s put this behind us. It’s time to stop the games and get on with our lives.

Pamela Ann

Keep a gamester from dice, and a good student from his book.

_Merry Wives_, iii. 1.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed

Michael Jordan

There are much worse games to play.

Suzanne Collins

This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet.

DAVID GARRICK. 1716-1779.     _Jupiter and Mercury._

Can't open /usr/games/lib/fortunes.dat.

Unknown

We all been playing those mind games forever Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil. Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic — the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure. Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow.

John Lennon

HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!

Unknown

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

EDWARD MOORE. 1712-1757.     _The Gamester. Act ii. Sc. 2._

'T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

EDWARD MOORE. 1712-1757.     _The Gamester. Act iii. Sc. 4._

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

Richard Bach

>Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.

Gary Gygax (recent death

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Dr. Seuss

Would you people stop playing these stupid games?!?!?!!!!

Unknown

Have you been listening to a word I’ve been saying? I don’t do games. I don’t do one-night stands. I don’t do affairs. Usually, when I meet a woman and take interest in her, I will be loyal to her, and only her. I expect the same. I don’t share well. I’m all for exclusiveness in everything I do, and own. I’m not afraid of commitment or hard work. You’re right; I’m not new to this. I’ve been in many relationships. This is good news, Sophie. It means I won’t waste your time. Rest assured, if I’m with you it’s because that’s exactly where I want to be. If ever I want out of a relationship, I leave. My commitment ends there. It’s simple enough and this is the only thing that makes sense to me.

Elisa Marie Hopkins

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part; the important thing in Life is not triumph, but the struggle; the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. To spread these principles is to build up a strong and more valiant and, above all, more scrupulous and more generous humanity.

Pierre de Coubertin

I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable — like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love — like there has never been in a play.

Tom Stoppard in Shakespeare in Love

If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my belt, freeing it. Peeta sees it and his hand clamps on my wrist. "No, I won't let you." "Trust me," I whisper. He holds my gaze for a long moment then lets go. I loosen the top of the pouch and pour a few spoonfuls of berries into his palm. Then I fill my own. "On the count of three?" Peeta leans down and kisses me once, very gently. "The count of three," he says. We stand, our backs pressed together, our empty hands locked tight. "Hold them out. I want everyone to see," he says. I spread out my fingers, and the dark berries glisten in the sun. I give Peeta's hand one last squeeze as a signal, as a good-bye, and we begin counting. "One." Maybe I'm wrong. "Two." Maybe they don't care if we both die. "Three!" It's too late to change my mind. I lift my hand to my mouth taking one last look at the world. The berries have just passed my lips when the trumpets begin to blare. The frantic voice of Claudius Templesmith shouts above them. "Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you - the tributes of District 12!

Suzanne Collins

A man was griping to his friend about how he hated to go home after a

late card games.

    "You wouldn't believe what I go through to avoid waking my wife,"

he said.  "First, I kill the engine a block away from the house and coast

into the garage.  Then I open the door slowly, take off my shoes, and

tiptoe to our room.  But just as I'm about to slide into bed, she always

wakes up and gives me hell."

    "I make a big racket when I go home," his friend replied.

    "You do?"

    "Sure.  I honk the horn, slam the door, turn on all the lights,

stomp up to the bedroom and give my wife a big kiss.  `Hi, Alice,' I say.

`How about a little smooch for your old man?'"

    "And what does she say?" his friend asked in disbelief.

    "She doesn't say anything," his buddy replied.  "She always pretends

she's asleep."

Fortune Cookie

What a strange game.  The only winning move is not to play.

        -- WOP, "War Games"

Fortune Cookie

We have found all life forms in the galaxy are capable of superior

development.

        -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3211.7

Fortune Cookie

Some of you ... may have decided that, this year, you're going to celebrate

it the old-fashioned way, with your family sitting around stringing

cranberries and exchanging humble, handmade gifts, like on "The Waltons".

Well, you can forget it.  If everybody pulled that kind of subversive stunt,

the economy would collapse overnight.  The government would have to

intervene: it would form a cabinet-level Department of Holiday Gift-Giving,

which would spend billions and billions of tax dollars to buy Barbie dolls

and electronic games, which it would drop on the populace from Air Force

jets, killing and maiming thousands.  So, for the good of the nation, you

should go along with the Holiday Program.  This means you should get a large

sum of money and go to a mall.

        -- Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"

Fortune Cookie

The games have always strengthened us.  Death becomes a familiar

pattern.  We don't fear it as you do.

        -- Proconsul Marcus Claudius, "Bread and Circuses",

           stardate 4041.2

Fortune Cookie

My God, I'm depressed!  Here I am, a computer with a mind a thousand times

as powerful as yours, doing nothing but cranking out fortunes and sending

mail about softball games.  And I've got this pain right through my ALU.

I've asked for it to be replaced, but nobody ever listens.  I think it would

be better for us both if you were to just log out again.

Fortune Cookie

FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:    #8

Going Out:

    When a man says he is ready to go out, it means he is ready to go

out.  When a woman says she is ready to go out, it means she WILL be ready

to go out, as soon as she finds her earring, finishes putting on her makeup,

checks on the kids, makes a phone call to her best friend...

Cats:

    Women love cats.  Men say they love cats, but when women aren't

looking, men kick cats.

Offspring:

    Ah, children.  A woman knows all about her children.  She knows

about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends

and favorite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams.  Men are vaguely

aware of some short people living in the house.

Fortune Cookie

Q:    Why is it that Mexico isn't sending anyone to the '84 summer games?

A:    Anyone in Mexico who can run, swim or jump is already in LA.

Fortune Cookie

Would you people stop playing these stupid games?!?!?!!!!

Fortune Cookie

One of the things that hamper Linux's climb to world domination is the

shortage of bad Computer Role Playing Games, or CRaPGs. No operating system

can be considered respectable without one.

        -- Brian O'Donnell, odonnllb@tcd.ie

Fortune Cookie

There are no games on this system.

Fortune Cookie

My first baseman is George "Catfish" Metkovich from our 1952 Pittsburgh

Pirates team, which lost 112 games.  After a terrible series against the

New York Giants, in which our center fielder made three throwing errors

and let two balls get through his legs, manager Billy Meyer pleaded, "Can

somebody think of something to help us win a game?"

    "I'd like to make a suggestion," Metkovich said.  "On any ball hit

to center field, let's just let it roll to see if it might go foul."

        -- Joe Garagiola, "It's Anybody's Ball Game"

Fortune Cookie

Can't open /usr/share/games/fortunes/fortunes.  Lid stuck on cookie jar.

Fortune Cookie

Bradyism:

    A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in

large families.  A rarity in those born after approximately 1965,

symptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional

withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a

well-defined personal space.

        -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated

           Culture"

Fortune Cookie

Unix is a lot more complicated (than CP/M) of course -- the typical Unix

hacker can never remember what the PRINT command is called this week --

but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game.

People don't do serious work on Unix systems; they send jokes around the

world on USENET or write adventure games and research papers.

        -- E. Post

        "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal", Datamation, 7/83

Fortune Cookie

Sometimes I feel like I'm fading away,

Looking at me, I got nothin' to say.

Don't make me angry with the things games that you play,

Either light up or leave me alone.

Fortune Cookie

well-adjusted, adj.:

    The ability to play bridge or golf as if they were games.

Fortune Cookie

    It is a period of system war.  User programs, striking from a hidden

directory, have won their first victory against the evil Administrative Empire.

During the battle, User spies managed to steal secret source code to the

Empire's ultimate program: the Are-Em Star, a privileged root program with

enough power to destroy an entire file structure.  Pursued by the Empire's

sinister audit trail, Princess _LPA0 races ~ aboard her shell script,

custodian of the stolen listings that could save her people, and restore

freedom and games to the network...

        -- DECWARS

Fortune Cookie

HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!

Fortune Cookie

There's a couple of million dollars worth of baseball talent on the loose,

ready for the big leagues, yet unsigned by any major league.  There are

pitchers who would win 20 games a season ... and outfielders [who] could

hit .350, infielders who could win recognition as stars, and there's at

least one catcher who at this writing is probably superior to Bill Dickey,

Josh Gibson.  Only one thing is keeping them out of the big leagues, the

pigmentation of their skin.  They happen to be colored.

        -- Shirley Povich, 1941

Fortune Cookie

All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars.

        -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3259.2

Fortune Cookie

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off

during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

        -- Dave Barry, "Sex and the Single Amoeba: What Every

           Teen Should Know"

Fortune Cookie

Can't open /usr/share/games/fortunes/fortunes.dat.

Fortune Cookie

<Knghtbrd> Internet censorship.  Because your children need to be

           protected from naked women, medical procedures, diverse

       cultures, and violent video games.

<knghtbrd> (but information on building bombs, stealing cable, and

           manufacturing drugs is okay...)

Fortune Cookie

`Lasu' Releases SAG 0.3 -- Freeware Book Takes Paves For New World Order

by staff writers

Helsinki, Finland, August 6, 1995 -- In a surprise movement, Lars

``Lasu'' Wirzenius today released the 0.3 edition of the ``Linux System

Administrators' Guide''.  Already an industry non-classic, the new

version sports such overwhelming features as an overview of a Linux

system, a completely new climbing session in a tree, and a list of

acknowledgements in the introduction.

    The SAG, as the book is affectionately called, is one of the

corner stones of the Linux Documentation Project.  ``We at the LDP feel

that we wouldn't be able to produce anything at all, that all our work

would be futile, if it weren't for the SAG,'' says Matt Welsh, director

of LDP, Inc.

    The new version is still distributed freely, now even with a

copyright that allows modification.  ``More dough,'' explains the author.

Despite insistent rumors about blatant commercialization, the SAG will

probably remain free.  ``Even more dough,'' promises the author.

    The author refuses to comment on Windows NT and Windows 96

versions, claiming not to understand what the question is about.

Industry gossip, however, tells that Bill Gates, co-founder and CEO of

Microsoft, producer of the Windows series of video games, has visited

Helsinki several times this year.  Despite of this, Linus Torvalds,

author of the word processor Linux with which the SAG was written, is

not worried.  ``We'll have world domination real soon now, anyway,'' he

explains, ``for 1.4 at the lastest.''

    ...

        -- Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cs.helsinki.fi>

           [comp.os.linux.announce]

Fortune Cookie

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate,

and play games -- but not with pleasure.

        -- Leo Rosten

Fortune Cookie

    When managers hold endless meetings, the programmers write games.

When accountants talk of quarterly profits, the development budget is about

to be cut.  When senior scientists talk blue sky, the clouds are about to

roll in.

    Truly, this is not the Tao of Programming.

    When managers make commitments, game programs are ignored.  When

accountants make long-range plans, harmony and order are about to be restored.

When senior scientists address the problems at hand, the problems will soon

be solved.

    Truly, this is the Tao of Programming.

        -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Fortune Cookie

"In short," said Sydney, "this is a desperate time, when desperate games are played for desperate stakes. Let the Doctor play the winning game; I will play the losing one. No man's life here is worth purchase. Any one carried home by the people to-day, may be condemned tomorrow. Now, the stake I have resolved to play for, in case of the worst, is a friend in the Conciergerie. And the friend I purpose to myself to win, is Mr. Barsad."

Charles Dickens     A Tale of Two Cities

This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his agents came near causing him to lose the trail. He speedily divined, however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his pursuers and himself. He bent his head and reflected like a blood-hound who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to the bridge of Austerlitz. A word with the toll-keeper furnished him with the information which he required: "Have you seen a man with a little girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert reached the bridge in season to see Jean Valjean traverse the small illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the sole exit of the Rue Droit-Mur into the Rue Petit-Picpus. He made sure of his back burrows, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue. A patrol which was returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff.

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

From Coritus came Acron to the fight, Who left his spouse betroth'd, and unconsummate night. Mezentius sees him thro' the squadrons ride, Proud of the purple favors of his bride. Then, as a hungry lion, who beholds A gamesome goat, who frisks about the folds, Or beamy stag, that grazes on the plain- He runs, he roars, he shakes his rising mane, He grins, and opens wide his greedy jaws; The prey lies panting underneath his paws: He fills his famish'd maw; his mouth runs o'er With unchew'd morsels, while he churns the gore: So proud Mezentius rushes on his foes, And first unhappy Acron overthrows: Stretch'd at his length, he spurns the swarthy ground; The lance, besmear'd with blood, lies broken in the wound. Then with disdain the haughty victor view'd Orodes flying, nor the wretch pursued, Nor thought the dastard's back deserv'd a wound, But, running, gain'd th' advantage of the ground: Then turning short, he met him face to face, To give his victor the better grace. Orodes falls, in equal fight oppress'd: Mezentius fix'd his foot upon his breast, And rested lance; and thus aloud he cries: "Lo! here the champion of my rebels lies!" The fields around with Io Paean! ring; And peals of shouts applaud the conqu'ring king. At this the vanquish'd, with his dying breath, Thus faintly spoke, and prophesied in death: "Nor thou, proud man, unpunish'd shalt remain: Like death attends thee on this fatal plain." Then, sourly smiling, thus the king replied: "For what belongs to me, let Jove provide; But die thou first, whatever chance ensue." He said, and from the wound the weapon drew. A hov'ring mist came swimming o'er his sight, And seal'd his eyes in everlasting night.

Virgil     The Aeneid

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