#gamble

There's a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that's willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices. ↗

— Josh Charles

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Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

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Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. ↗

— Charles Mackay

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled. ↗

— Tom Berenger

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I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off. ↗

— Alex Trebek

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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair. ↗

— Joe Namath

#dealings #else #everybody #everybody else #fair

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk. ↗

— Edmund H. North

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