“Present action, though futile, is preferable to passive acceptance of such a fate as awaits us.”
Michael Shea (1946–2014) writer
Source: A Quest for Simbilis (1974), Chapter 6, “The House on the River” (p. 112)
“Monotheism introduced the idea that we should passively accept whatever fate God dealt. Gambling seemed to be a refusal to do that.”
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006), Chapter 4, A Brief History of Risk Denial, p. 75
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