Cynics and physics students put it like this

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2. You can't break even. | 3. You can't get out of the game. | Presenting a standard humorous summary of the three principal laws of thermodynamics in Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos : The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe (1991), p. 106

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