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• If you must play, decide on three things at the sta
  the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. -- Chinese proverb...
• God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising
  which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time....
• Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her.
  But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game....
• Life is a game, to win you must play and to play you must win.
• Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. Chinese Proverb
• In magic, as in all true professions, there are rules by which you must play.
  At least, you must play by them until such time as you can get away with something else....
• You must climb the mountain if you would see the plain. Chinese Proverb
• Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. -- Chinese Proverb
• He no play-a da game. He no make-a da rules! -- On the pope and birth control