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  • The heraldic equivalent of a pair of furry dice bouncing around in the back of a state coach.

    -Anonymous
      On the title of Countess of Finchley bestowed on former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In the NewYorker, 6  Jan.

  • If the iron dice roll, may God help us.

    -Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
      Speech in the Reichstag.

  • Jedenfalls bin ich u«  berzeugt, dass der nicht wu«  rfelt. Anyway, I am sure that he [God] does not play dice. See Hawking 385:31.

    - Albert Einstein
      Letter to Max Born, 4 Dec.

  •   The dice of God are always loaded.

    - RalphWaldo Emerson
    Essays: First Series,'Compensation'.

  • God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. See Einstein 301:32.

    - StephenWilliam Hawking
      In Nature, vol.257.

  • Un coup de de  s n'abolira jamais le hasard. A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

    - Ste  phane Mallarme 
       Title of poem, in Cosmopolis, May.

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