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gambling may succeed
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility. Charles Caleb Colton
gambling games fire
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. Charles Lamb
gambling folds
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
gambling soul nuisance
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. Charles Baudelaire
gambling nevada people push sports
The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish. Dick Davies
gambling honor dice
It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won. William Shakespeare
gambling principles human-nature
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature. Edmund Burke
gambling luck meals
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. James Weldon Johnson
gambling good kids seeing
We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.
greed missing curiosity
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do. Agnes de Mille
greed copies refuse
Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. Aaron Swartz
greed soul extravagance
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
greedy lack poor
The poor lack much, but the greedy more
greed guy soul
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. Ben Nicholson
greed consciousness consumerism
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach. Charles Horton Cooley
greed too-much enough
having too much is never enough. Arianna Huffington
greed world rich
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. B. C. Forbes
greedy ends fearful
No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end. Bill Gurley
luck fortune quarters
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter. Charlotte Bronte
lucky whole-life has-beens
I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that. Brian Wilson
lucky
Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky. DJ Qualls
luck human-nature tick
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? David McCullough
lucky beats chanting
Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day. David Mitchell
lucky actors thumbs
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream. Jane Birkin
luck ifs knows
If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else. Jandy Nelson
luck lucky talent
A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. Jane Austen
luck triumph talent
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.