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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.


Samuel Butler

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BIBLE All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
SAMUEL BUTLER Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.
MICHAEL JORDAN If I were a betting person, I'd bet all that signals this will be his last term.
CARTER PHILLIPS If I was a betting person, I'd bet on Willie Brown but I wouldn't bet on point spread.
PHIL MATIER For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) If I were betting, I would bet there would be a deal by Wednesday.
JONATHAN KRAFT My bet is that others are experiencing the same things. I am also betting that most people aren't ev...
JAMES HURLEY Sports betting is the rock of Gibraltar. It's American, like apple pie. That will always be there. P...
ED LOONEY It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN It looks like the judges are marking what they see. Then I see something and I say, 'Where does that...
GWENDAL PEIZERAT I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a diffe...
PETE ROSE If you were betting, it would be unwise to bet on anything less than 25 years.
RONALD FERGUSON I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
PETE ROSE While, to me, daily fantasy is in no way sports betting, it's certainly a cousin of sports betti...
ADAM SILVER All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because ...
LYMAN ABBOTT All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because...
LYMAN ABBOTT It's hard to believe that this is it, after all the speculation. The market is going to be very disa...
DAVID HURD Faith is not speculation, neither is it assumption nor denial, but certainty and assurance.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gamb...
JOANNA RUSS Ultimately, the issue is not whether you are pro- or anti-sports betting. You begin, from my standpo...
ADAM SILVER I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is abou...
BLANCHE LINCOLN Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I feel very positive that if Butler County chooses to adopt a city, that will enable us to have a di...
DON RYAN Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ATHANASIUS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER I wouldn't sit here and say I'm a betting man and I would bet that I'd get around 'J' every time. Bu...
ANTHONY JOHNSON For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they...
NORMAN GEISLER Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamble...
JULES VERNE The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS I will have the faith... not the faith they want me to have, but another kind of faith which is of m...
FRANK MCCOURT If you're betting your own money, you bet on Perry (to win re-election). But he can be beaten becaus...
CAL JILLSON I came out betting because I judged him on a big pair. I bet $1,500. He raised another $2,000. I cal...
JOE AWADA They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians....
G.K. CHESTERTON I beg readers to remember that this is a fantasy. It has of course - or I intended it to have - a mo...
C.S. LEWIS There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own ...
MAHATMA GANDHI The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all,...
RIDLEY SCOTT I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort ...
HANNAH WARE I think my client is innocent and that after a full and fair presentation of the relevant evidence h...
BARBARA GELDER I think my client is innocent and that after a full and fair presentation of the relevant evidence h...
BARBARA VAN GELDER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would s...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL But, I believe," I continue, "I know what true love is - or what it should be."

"What sh...
LISA ANN SANDELL It is kind of a shock, but what do you do. I'll keep my fingers crossed; that's all I can do.
AARON DOWNEY Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ST. ATHANASIUS That's part of their problem -- they're cowards. I think that he (Plummer) should be charged with at...
TERRY MCMILLAN What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER Steve Case is the chairman of the board and will be so after the meeting. All other discussion is ju...
EDWARD ADLER Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It&...
SHARON SALZBERG I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.

We'd see wh...
CHERIE PRIEST It worked. I kind of had a smile on my face after that.
JUSTIN EASH I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot kno...
FRANCIS SPUFFORD What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in J...
HEBER J. GRANT Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the ...
C. JOYBELL C. It's a shame. Great player, and we all loved Pete as a player. But there's a rule in baseball that s...
DALE PETROSKEY We never comment on that kind of speculation.
ASE LINDSKOG I wasn't surprised at all. In fact I had bet money that this auction would see a contemporary Chines...
LUDOVIC BOIS I think it's something that's really shocking to the university, but I think it's also very importan...
EMILY JOHNSON No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferab...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awar...
ASHIM SHANKER Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theolog...
NAMSOON KANG It was an amazing time. We were students. We went from barely able to pay the rent to betting severa...
DAVID IRVINE I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is ...
JOHN UPDIKE But I wasn't in on it, wouldn't have gone into it under any circumstances and didn't bet a cent on t...
ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Anthony Wright is the starter for an undetermined period right now due to injury. Kyle Boller is our...
BRIAN BILLICK Leadership is not about the power and status of one
but the empowerment and service of all. Th...
RASHEED OGUNLARU But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
MAHATMA GANDHI Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all th...
BIBLE I'll see what kind of feedback I get, but after the first two plays of contact, I forgot about it. I...
CEDRIC BENSON Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I'm not sure they can put it all together to beat Detroit or beat a Miami or a Cleveland. But I woul...
GEORGE KARL What I'm nervous about is, I don't want to set a precedent where a boss or any third party -- milita...
ART CAPLAN Immediately it stuck into my mind, "Leave off preaching. How can you preach to others, who have not ...
JOHN WESLEY A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 Gather my broken ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? ...
GEORGE SAUNDERS I have spend a lot of time on everything and what's impresses me about people I have written that in...
DEYTH BANGER After three or four hours on a bike, everything goes numb. I thought I would be permanently damaged,...
CHRIS GILL I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as search...
CHERYL STRAYED My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy ...
VIN DIESEL Great God of wonders; my rock and my redeemer!
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always ...
RAFE SPALL It takes courage to rip things out, but you get that confidence after a while, after you know what c...
FERGUS GARRETT I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES I own a horse and ride, but I don't know racing or betting.
MICHAEL MANN I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other th...
JACKIE KENNEDY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.
NAZANIN BONIADI We hear a lot of it. But all I say is, I'm going to do my best and play my best. That's not up to me...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a tr...
SAMUEL BUTLER Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in th...
SAMUEL BUTLER A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
SAMUEL BUTLER Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
SAMUEL BUTLER For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
SAMUEL BUTLER Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
SAMUEL BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last
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