#gamble

The movie business is a big gamble. ↗

— Jackie Chan

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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#lives #men #own #pay #reasonable

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. ↗

— Charles Mackay

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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. ↗

— Steve Martin

#different #dinosaurs #evolutionary #gambled #humans

I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair. ↗

— Joe Namath

#dealings #else #everybody #everybody else #fair

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more. ↗

— Michael Andretti

#bit #gamble #little #little bit #more

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?' ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#gamble #i #i do #life #myself

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

#democratic #enterprise #even #free #free enterprise

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#bring #citizens #contributions #dividends #face