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“Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.”
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“Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.”
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“Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.”
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“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
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“I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.”
Source : Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.1, Harper Collins
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“Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”
Source : Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press
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“A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'”
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“This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.”
Source : Abdus Salam, H. R. Dalafi (1994). “Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries”, p.139, World Scientific
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“If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.”
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“I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.”
