#gamble

The movie business is a big gamble. ↗

— Jackie Chan

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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life. ↗

— Wayne Allard

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Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

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I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. ↗

— Elias Canetti

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The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers. ↗

— Marcel Carne

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