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Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.

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

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don't have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

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

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

Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation.” “And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.” “Are you quoting the Bible to me?” “Indeed,” she said primly, the portrait of piousness. “While gambling.” “What better location to attempt to reform one such as you?

You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

Check out my interview with Kostya Kennedy on themodern online. Sports Illustrated writer and author of Pete Rose: An American Dilemma. It may change your mind, one way or the other.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an event with a fixed probability increase or decrease depending on recent occurrences of the event is called the gambler's fallacy. For example, if Kerrich landed, say, 44 heads in the first 100 tosses, the coin would not develop a bias towards the tails in order to catch up! That's what is at the root of such ideas as "her luck has run out" and "He is due." That does not happen. For what it's worth, a good streak doesn't jinx you, and a bad one, unfortunately , does not mean better luck is in store.

At least in a casino, depending on the game, people have a slightly less than fifty percent chance of winning. In the long run, the house always wins, but a gambler can get lucky every once in a while. In the Tyranny’s elections, both options play for the house. If someone outside of Party A or B tries to run for office, it becomes the house’s mission to make sure everyone knows that only A and B are viable candidates. After being told this a hundred times, people believe it. After being told anything a hundred times, people will believe anything.