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• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

  Vince Cable

  Loss, Years, Balance

  "The Storm ... how to survive it (and how to prevent its return)" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2009.

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• No wife can endure a gambling husband-unless he is a steady winner.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Husband, Wife, Gamer

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• The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Men, Order

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• The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Money, Humorous

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4494, e-artnow

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• In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Winning, Order

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5565, e-artnow

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• A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Gentleman, Debt

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• Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Promise, Rich, Poor

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• Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Animal, Competition

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.40

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• Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Money, Math

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• Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Men, Answers

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• The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Funny, Money, Practice

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• My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

  Jack Dreyfus

  Funny, Money, Humorous

  Jack Dreyfus (2001). “A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked”, p.12, Lantern Books

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• Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?

  Jack Norris

  Winning, Ems

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• There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

  Georges Pompidou

  Technology, Sisterhood, Three

  Sunday Telegraph 26 May 1968

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• Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

  Nick Dandolos

  Funny, Money, Humorous

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• As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Faith, Believe, Giving

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.697, Institute of GS

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• The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

  John Warren Kindt

  Jobs, Going Away, Construction

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• Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Business, War, Giving

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• I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

  Alex Trebek

  Sunset, Winning, Giving

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• My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done.

  John Scarne

  Player, Thinking, Advice

  John Scarne (1961). “Complete guide to gambling”

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• Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. For example, I don’t risk significant amounts of money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Keys, Average, Risk

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• You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Neighbor

  John Ruskin (1905). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

  Spencer Bachus

  Numbers, People, Pennsylvania

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• We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Running, Country

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• I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

  John Forsythe

  Men, Dollars

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