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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
Gambling

"There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble."

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Fisher Stevens Actor, director, producer
Gambling

"I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Gambling

"Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed."

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Michael Jordan Professional Basketball Player
Gambling

"I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining."

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Michael Jordan Professional Basketball Player
Gambling

"I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know."

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
Gambling

"Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another."

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Euripides Playwright
Gambling

"Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
Gambling

"But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Gambling

"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."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Gambling

"This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely."

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Fisher Stevens Actor, director, producer
Gambling

"But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too."

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