#gambled

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. ↗

— Mario Puzo

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Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. ↗

— Arthur H. Compton

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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. ↗

— Steve Martin

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

— Tom Berenger

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