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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.


Mark Twain


#judgment

Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.


Jim Butcher


#harry-dresden #business

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.


Jack London


#making-do #poker #life

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.


Tori Amos


#bluff #cards #eye #go #i

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.


Jean Baudrillard


#conscience #deep #deep down #down #even

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#charming #depths #heads #how #lose

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.


Ambrose Bierce


#fall #hardest #his #make #man

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.


Wilfred Burchett


#being #bluff #camp #come #commanders

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.


J.D. Salinger


#confusion #funny

Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.


Jim Fowler


#bull #bulls #couple #cow #dairy






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