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A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. – Thomas Jefferson
Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing – Casino
Dawson Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place. Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place. – Dazed and Confused
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest. – W. Somerset Maugham
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody. – Happy Gilmore
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon) – Gerald R. Ford
College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks. – H. L. Mencken
Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. – J. J. Fumas
For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. – Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)
Garth Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny – Wayne's World
Gerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off. – Lyndon Baines Johnson
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. – Stephen Leacock
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. – John Mason Brown
I hate music, especially when it's played. – Jimmy Durante
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace. – Edward Lear
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. – William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. – Bobby Jones
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it. – Richard Milhous Nixon
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself. – Franz Xavier Kroetz
Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. – W. Somerset Maugham
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey. – Pat Conroy
The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all pile into the car---I forget what kind it was---and drive and drive. I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some trees there. The smell of something was strong in the air as we played whatever sport we played. I remember a bigger, older guy we called 'Dad.' We'd eat some stuff, or not, and then I think we went home. I guess some things never leave you. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball. – Ralph Kiner
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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