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James P. Carse Quotes

There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other, infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

James P. Carse

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american

Topics

Purpose Winning Game Play Infinite

The Government Securities Act gave the Treasury Department some rulemaking authority over all government securities brokers and dealers. But the act also required these firms to register with the SEC.

Jerome Powell

Government Authority Over Act Some

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

Andrea Corr

Happiness Past Child People World

Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.

John Patrick Shanley

Women Lunch You May Must Identify

I believe the future of our country can be really great.

John Key

Future Great Believe Country Our

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Attitude Music Art Politics Thinking

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

Education Learning Stupidity Strange

I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something significant, and we could also mention who use post-modernism in this way - maybe we shouldn't.

Luca Guadagnino

Person Way Become Pretend Something

The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like.

Josh McDermitt

Character Cool Book You Playing He

I drove the Ford Ranger until probably five years after college, till about 2001, when I was almost 30.

Chuck Liddell

College Years Five Almost Until

The right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel does not mean disregarding the rights of others in the land.

Ariel Sharon

People Land Others Mean Right Does

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

William H. Seward

Slavery Free Now Slave Only Would

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

Seamus Heaney

Experience Duty Panic Last Stuff