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People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.

Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

Shallow men believe in luck.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

She got to go to heaven four days early.

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.

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Suckers have no business with money anyway.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment, social resentment, discontent, upheaval and riots, bankruptcy, increased government controls, and eventual collapse.

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

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

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

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

The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon everyone, through supposedly neutral and just laws, their innumerable taboos on sex, alcohol, gambling. We are now indeed a nation of laws, mostly bad and certainly antihuman.

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.

The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play.

The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts

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

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a losing day.

The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

The only difference between a winner and a loser is a winner plays until he wins

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

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.

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.