#gambling

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe. ↗

— James Jones

#gambling #masculinity #men #sports #violence

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#dice #equivalent #gambling #getting #getting money

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#blackjack #gambling #i #like #play

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#blackjack #circle #gambling #i #i love

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

#american #association #become #begins #conducted

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#become #connecticut #exposed #fact #four

We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them. ↗

— Donald L. Carcieri

#continue #dependent #gambling #owned #revenue

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#best #best time #condition #fortunes #gambling

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#curiosity #debts #duty #family #father

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#condemning #gambling #las #las vegas #organized