“Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he’d stay stupid.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 17.
“She bets the doubles and the parlays, a guaranteed way to stay busted.”
Travis McGee series, (1966)
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: Yes, we are on our way back — not just by pure chance, my friends, not just by a turn of the wheel, of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we are planning it that way. Don't let anybody tell you differently.
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