“This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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“I enjoy gambling, I find ample opportunity in gambling to engage my mind and study.”
जूवा (Gambling)
“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally - that was a man’s life.”
Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006), Chapter 4, A Brief History of Risk Denial, p. 81
“Gambling is the contraction of all vices into one.”
Os Brâmanes, p. 53
Os Brâmanes (1866)
As quoted in "Visit to Two-Finger Typist" by Elliot Chaze in LIFE magazine (14 July 1961)
“Isn't it clear that the war makers are gambling with your lives, while pocketing huge profits?”
At a 1967 broadcast directed to U.S. troops, as quoted in "'Hanoi Hannah,' Whose Broadcasts Taunted And Entertained American GIs, Dies" in NPR (6 October 2016) https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/05/496662815/hanoi-hannah-whose-broadcasts-taunted-and-entertained-american-gis-dies-at-87
During Vietnam War