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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.


Ambrose Bierce

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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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GINGER HELMS Gambling can be just as addictive as drugs and alcohol. Teens and their parents need to know that th...
DAVID GOLDSTEIN Gambling can be just as addictive as drugs and alcohol. Teens and their parents need to know that th...
JENNIFER MCCAUSLAND The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept artifacts from any company known to be involv...
JEFF IDELSON The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept artifacts from any company known to be involv...
JEFF IDELSON We should abstain from miserliness,cruelty,gambling and misconduct while doing business.
ATHARVA VEDA Your mother has this crazy idea that gambling is wrong. Even though they say it's okay in the bible.
DAN CASTELLANETA Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinkin...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It's not only to do with gambling. It's the experience with other things as well.
IVAN KANE The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept an artifact from any company whose business i...
JEFF IDELSON I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” ~ Ambrose ...
J.J. MCAVOY In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
BETTE DAVIS It looks like they're trying to reduce their capital- markets business to try and save their futures...
LARRY TABB When there is gambling, this is what we expect him to do when he is making payouts on poker machines...
BRENDAN CONWAY The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
AL ALVAREZ It's not quite as bad as a gambling addiction but it's like that.
GREG JARBOE We believe our 'voice-print' technology will make it easier to implement user-friendly cellular gamb...
DAVID LOFLIN It seems all the great gambling movies use gambling to propel another storyline,
ANDY BELLIN As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques.
STEVE TRUGLIA For any attempt any one come across Insult,opposite,Acceptance. Fool drop his attempt when come acro...
UN KNOWN Business simply means make known,so invariably marketing should be embedded inside every business.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the...
GEORGES POMPIDOU A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from th...
PAUL LAXALT Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is on...
STEVEN PINKER Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the prin...
WILLIAM FEATHER Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the princi...
WILLIAM FEATHER Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the princi...
WILLIAM FEATHER As a member of the MISD school board, I have first hand knowledge of the issues facing our public sc...
DUKE BURGE Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only g...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Well, we can't control that, just as we can't control outsiders gambling on our games.
GREG AIELLO No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Maynard really created the new Atlanta. What is known as the capital of the New South came from his ...
BILL CAMPBELL The urge to gamble is so universal, and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD BROUN Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people.
W. C. FIELDS When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over t...
DEAN MARTIN One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.
DAN BENNETT No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
LORD THOMAS ROBERT DEWAR The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD HALE BROUN Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
DEAN INGE Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.
GORDON B. HINKLEY Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because ...
RITA MAE BROWN It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going t...
JIM MORRISON Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet it.
DAMON RUNYON The best throw with the dice is to throw them away.
ANONYMOUS I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
STEVE ALLEN A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it
JIM JONES Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...
GLORIA STEINEM In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the...
CHINESE PROVERB It is outrageous that Ken Blackwell campaigns against gambling, but lines his own pocket with slot-m...
BOB PADUCHIK I've gotten myself into [gambling] situations where I would not walk away and I've pushed the envelo...
MICHAEL JORDAN There is no better gambling than not to gamble
GERMAN PROVERB It's important that we distinguish between legalized gambling and illegal gambling. I want to emphas...
BILL DALY That's about $9 million a year, and for a gambling ring that's not a big operation. It's not notable...
ED LOONEY Recently we have protected a number of our customers from Trojan threats being distributed through s...
ELDAR TUVEY We're using the word 'gambling' more often now.
EDWARD LOONEY We are aware that gambling exists, and we do everything to distance ourselves from it.
BRIAN MCCARTHY Once we got behind we had to start gambling. They really didn't do anything we didn't expect. We jus...
DAN BOLLINGER It is extremely important for individuals who may have a problem with gambling to have some place to...
CONNIE JONES We maintain he was in the back of the boat gambling with his buddies and did not partake in sexual m...
EARL GRAY I've gotten myself into [gambling] situations where I would not walk away and I've pushed the envelo...
ED BRADLEY Yeah, I've gotten myself into (gambling) situations where I would not walk away and I've pushed the ...
ED BRADLEY Overall, I'd say that gambling has been very beneficial to Cripple Creek. We have experienced some g...
KIP PETERSEN Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM Some people are unable to get over their prejudices. The culprit is the constant characterization of...
BRAD ZIGLER Young people may think that they are only experimenting, but, as this study shows, they are really g...
BARRY MCCAFFREY Just like gambling is over at the Sun-Times. ... Every time I read the Sun-Times, they've got the ga...
JOHN DALEY Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losse...
VINCE CABLE The dinosaur formerly known as Sue will now formally be known as Sue.
WILLIAM MULLER Seemingly harmless office pools can introduce the lure and excitement of gambling to the 5 to 8 perc...
DAVID GREENFIELD This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling...
MALCOLM X The Internet gambling industry will be delighted AGA has called for an objective study because this ...
JOSEPH KELLY We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.
EDWARD LOONEY What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino ...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan w...
RAND PAUL I have no problem with a tribe and the governor's office negotiating duration of a contract. To talk...
DAVE KNUDSON From our point of view, it's not just recognizing customers that might have a problem with gambling,...
ANDY ABBOUD From Wildwood to the north end of Marion County it looks like business as usual,
JOHN ALBRIGHT For business owners, there are many important documents to learn to read. One of the most important ...
DARREN L JOHNSON We're also trying to learn more about what motivates people to start a business or at least to dream...
HARRY HOOVER Without gambling, I would not exist.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There's no drug testing for gambling.
MARC LEFKOWITZ I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
PARIS HILTON Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
WILSON MIZNER Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
UNKNOWN I was known as the person with the 24-hour smile.
MADELEINE QUAYAT For me, I think that, certainly, the fact that Las Vegas has a gambling aspect to it is far overshad...
JERRY JONES We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers
PETER SINGER Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been win...
JERRY LEWIS I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
TINA YOTHERS I was appalled that our own state government could so ruthlessly target teenage gamblers and view th...
JENNIFER MCCAUSLAND Groupism at lower level is known as union, while the same thing at higher level is known as committe...
DR HITESH C SHETH Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.
AL ALVAREZ I'm a gambling man and would have a punt on Bernie,
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AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
AMBROSE BIERCE The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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