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gambler
«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.»
«All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion»
Author: Stephen Hawking
(Physicist)
| About:
God,
Universe
| Keywords:
casino, casinos, dice, gambler, gamblers, occasion, quite a, roulette, roulette wheel, spin, spinning wheel, The Casino, The Gambler, thrown, wheels
«There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
acquisition, central, consuming, cultures, devote, gambler, gamblers, gambling, inability, lowered, sexual activity, the Action, The central, The Gambler, token
«IF the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the young innocence. I will not allow them to be blamed. The fault lies wholly on the shoulders of the elders, the parents, and the leaders who shape the norms which they imbibe.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
blamed, gambler, gamblers, imbibed, imbibes, norm, norms, textbook, textbooks, The Gambler
«Even the strong hand the bold player conquers, as the skilled gambler heaps up his winnings at the proper time. Upon him that loves the game (the god), and does not spare his money, (the game, the god) verily bestows the delights of wealth.»
Author: Atharva Veda
| Keywords:
bestows, conquers, delights, gambler, heaped-up, heaps, proper time, winnings
«Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
compound, gambler, gamblers, soldierly, The Gambler, valor
«It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.»
«The whore and gambler, by the state Licensed, build the nation's fate»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
gambler, gamblers, licensed, The Gambler
