Purity
* belongs to both mind and body.
* character- istic note of the Order of light and truth.
* concern with all health food supplements, including shark cartilage.
* describes freedom from anything that's false or insincere.
* is also a state of health.
* is an expression of the relative amounts of impurities and contaminants
  - important value in Hindu and Sikh culture
  - attained by freedom from Desire
  - continual, immediate confession of and repentance from sin
  - determined by unalloyed altruism and utopianism
  - everything in design
  - hard to find in sports
  - measured by chemical assays
  - physical and mental, since both are inter-related
  - strictly a virtue in the mind of the beholder
* is the basis of Biblical peace
  - fractional distance from the white point that the sample lies in the xy diagram
  - repelling of desire by desire and the total extinguishing of fire by immaterial fire
  - state of purtiy of the mind
  - to demonstrate true wisdom and reason, unswayed by selfish desire or ego
  - viewed as a sickness
* key factor in oral absorption.
* matter of what comes forth from our hearts.
* means having impurities removed
  - sexual abstinence for the unmarried
* measure of the skewness of the label value distribution.
* prerequisite for evangelists and all saints.
* simply means being 'uncontaminated' in a polluted world, an impure environment.

Poker
* 'black art' because it is played against humans who are far from perfect.
* bottomless pit of decisions and actions with financial ramifications.
* combination of luck and skill.
* common example of a game with incomplete information.
* complex mass of pot situations and player tendencies.
* family of gambling card games , but is often considered a skill based game.
* gambling game which involves some luck, but also some skill.
* game of cards - but in reality it's a game of the mind
  - chance
  - human beings
  - people
  - probabilities and deception
  - risk management
  - skill and chance
* has so much more to do with people that it does with the cards.
* is about money.
* is an endurance game as well as everything else
  - example of a game of incomplete information in which chance plays a role
  - implement
  - different because it's meaningless without money
  - like chess in certain ways
* is one of America's contributions to the world's games culture
  - the most ancient and challenging of gambling games
* is played all over the world
  - by any number from two to eight with an ordinary pack of fifty-two cards
  - with one deck of playing cards and dealt only by professional dealers
  - poker's extra-vibrant internet newsgroup
  - poker, whether the player is English, Chinese, or American
  - probably the most well known of all card games
* is the art of the bet, combined with smooth talking and high emotions
  - game of life in a nutshell, with rules
  - greatest game ever invented
* is, after all, a gambling game
  - of course, a game that can be played with real playing cards.
  * gambling game which involves some luck, but also some skill. In poker, players make bets against each other depending on the value of their poker hand. Bets are usually made with plastic or ceramic discs called 'chips'. Bets may also be made with real money, but chips are more often used because they are easier to handle and count. At the end of the game, players either swap their chips for money, or the chips are counted to determine the order of winners
* male dominated sport.
* name used to describe a wide range of games that perhaps have very little in common.
* people game.
* varied card game with many different variations.
* zero-sum game.