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The universe... doesn't owe us anything but an education, and it gives us lessons every day.

— John Vorhaus Replace, Wince, Repeat (2007)

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To an asshole, the whole world looks dark.

Under the Gun (2008)

Go off in all directions at once; you're bound to get somewhere somehow.

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The controlling idea... in so many facets of human interaction is: If you can't be right, be loud; if you're loud enough long enough, you will appear to be right.

Poker Night (2004)

I've lost myself in my work many times. If you love what you do, this can be a Zen thing, where past and future recede to a vanishing point and leave nothing but the perfect vexing, challenging, beguiling now.

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[That] is the essence of poker: making tricky decisions based on incomplete information.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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