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You can't win. 2. You can't break even. 3. You can't even get out of the game.
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Wiggins, Arthur W.; Harris, Sidney (2007). The Joy of Physics. Prometheus Books. p. 186. ISBN 1-59102-590-7.
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These statements are known collectively as "Ginsberg's theorem", a restatement of the three Laws of Thermodynamics.

 

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Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

 

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Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.

 

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