Gambling Quotes - Page 18

• Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Luck, Wheels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.282, Library of America

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• If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, Damnation, Would Be

  1979 Disturbing the Universe, ch.1.

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• But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Circles, Would Be, Misery

  "A Budget of Paradoxes".

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• You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.

  Jay Leno

  Football, Athlete, College

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• I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

  Stan Bowles

  Football, Drinking, Thinking

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• There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Politics, Politician

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• Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Mistake, Humorous, Errors

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• Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

  Robert G. Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Insightful

  Robert G Allen “Nothing Down For The 2000's volume 2”, Creative Intertrade Systems

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• Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.

  Lucian Freud

  Losing, Problem, Economic

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible

  Annette Crosbie

  Dog, Self, Years

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• Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

  Seth Klarman

  Strategy, Investment, Behavior

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• Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.

  John Daly

  Drinking, Blood, Granted

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• I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

  Josh Brolin

  Horse, Winning, Play

  "Double trouble" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2008.

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• The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained

  Heber J. Grant

  Practice, Games, Giving

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• There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Government, Three, Republican

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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• If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

  Dario Argento

  Movie, Watches, Actors

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• You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

  Mary Schmich

  Movie, Two, People

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• The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

  Mary Schmich

  Movie, Actors, Who We Are

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• I make movies I want to see.

  Neil LaBute

  Movie, Actors, Want

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• Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

  Wim Wenders

  Movie, People, Needs

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, People

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• Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

  John Gay

  Men, Quality, Mechanic

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.95, OUP Oxford

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• It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Casinos, Financial, Should

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!

  William C. Brown

  Life Is, Used, Ends

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• The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

  David Mamet

  Pain, Winning, Thrill

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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