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Letter "T" » The Gambler
«I am a publisher-a hybrid creature: one part stargazer, one part gambler, one part businessman, one part midwife and three parts optimist.»
«He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.»
«A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.»
«All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion»
Author: Stephen Hawking
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Physicist)
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About:
God,
Universe
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Keywords:
casino,
casinos,
dice,
gambler,
gamblers,
occasion,
quite a,
roulette,
roulette wheel,
spin,
spinning wheel,
The Casino,
The Gambler,
thrown,
wheels
«Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.»
«IF the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the young innocence. I will not allow them to be blamed. The fault lies wholly on the shoulders of the elders, the parents, and the leaders who shape the norms which they imbibe.»
«I am the fraud of the gambler; I am the splendor of the splendid; I am victory [of the victorious]; I am resolution [of the resolute]; I am the goodness of the good.»
«It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.»
Author: Buddha
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About:
Faults
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Keywords:
chaff,
conceals,
cunning,
dice,
dicing,
faults,
gambler,
gamblers,
shows,
The Gambler,
The Wind,
wind
«Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
as many,
avarice,
despair,
drunkards,
ennui,
gamblers,
suicides,
The Gambler,
thirst,
thirsted,
thirsting
«I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.»