Pick A Winning Company, And Make It Work For You. ... Living the high life?! Well, you've heard it all haven't you?? Headlines screaming with promised riches, group meetings that pump you up with music and hype, people telling you over and over again that this one is different! How in heck do you sort through it all?. ...
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
—French proverb.
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions.
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)
Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron all in black,
And learn me how to lose a winning match
Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods.
Hood my unmanned blood, bating in my cheeks,
With thy black mantle till strange love grow bold,
Think true love acted simple modesty.
Come, night. Come, Romeo. Come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow upon a raven’s back.
Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-browed night,
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)