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Our players know that somebody, figuratively speaking, is going to beat those odds. It could be any one of them.


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ALFRED KORZYBSKI It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI …the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for wor...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original...
ALFRED JARRY It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a v...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]
ALFRED AUSTIN The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
ALFRED BRENDEL The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to c...
ALFRED ADLER To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its o...
ALFRED ADLER There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by...
ALFRED KASTLER On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilize...
ALFRED NOBEL Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
ALFRED SCHNITTKE