“The casino is the only human venture I know where the probabilities are known, Gaussian (i. e., bell-curve), and almost computable.”
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 127
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                        “The courts are no longer cathedrals. They are…casinos where the throw of the dice matters.”
                                        
                                        Lina Gonsalves in:  Women and Human Rights http://books.google.co.in/books?id=FBn_mCImoagC&pg=PA4, APH Publishing, 2001 
At the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Supreme Court on the aspect of money and power getting precedence over justice.
                                    
 
                            
                        
                        
                        I howled for the woman I loved... and she howled back - British wolfman tells how his obsession drove away the love of his life http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1245507/I-howled-woman-I-loved--howled--British-wolfman-tells-obsession-drove-away-love-life.html, Daily Mail, (23 January, 2010)
                                        
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                                        Hopper’s respond on a comment of an interviewer about the 'lack of communication' in his painting art 
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                        Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 12, Bell's Interconnectedness Theorem, p. 230
 
        
     
                             
                            