"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
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"In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win."
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"Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science."
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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."
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"Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions."
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"It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one."
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"I never enjoyed working in a film."
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"You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives."
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"You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor."
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"The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!"
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"Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown."
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"There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners."
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"Without gambling, I would not exist."
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"Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems."
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"There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident."
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"Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly."
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"I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society."
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"A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize."
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"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."
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"The best bet you get is an even break."
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