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All exchange stimulates productive activity, whether exchange by gift, gambling, barter, or money transaction.
The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 5 -
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ''speculation''; but which ought to be called Gambling.
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Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
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From the lottery to raise the funds for the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 to the lottery used to pay the interest on Dutch loans to the United States during the Revolutionary War, the development of the United States was funded by gambling.
The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4 -
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
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If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
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Monotheism introduced the idea that we should passively accept whatever fate God dealt. Gambling seemed to be a refusal to do that.
The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4 -
No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.
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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
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Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
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The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
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