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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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Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet. ↗

— Joanna Russ

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Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

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The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers. ↗

— Marcel Carne

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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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I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

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I'm not a gambler. ↗

— Jil Sander

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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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