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Gambling Wisdom Part 2
Read memorable quotes of and for famous gamblers
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| Gambling in Australia. Where else in the world are
jockeys more revered than musicians and scientists? Where else
in the world are the people's clubs dependent for their
existence on poker machines? Where else in the world is a famous
race horse stuffed and enshrined in a museum? |
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Frank Hardy |
| Almost
everybody gambled in the Old West. Prospectors and dance-hall
girls, cattle barons and cowpokes, clergymen and gunfighters all
gathered around gambling tables to wager their newly won
fortunes - or their last possessions - on the turn of a card or
the spin of a wheel...Gambling was a Western mania, the only
amusement that could match the heady, speculative atmosphere of
frontier life itself. |
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Time-Life Books |
| Bets
of robes, blankets, coins, and so forth were piled in the
middle. Anyone could bet on a team, even women. Women also had
their betting games, which could last for a few hours or several
days. All bets had to be absolutely matched. All gambling
required good sportsmanship. It was shameful for pool losers to
grieve. They would get no symphaty. |
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Mourning Dove |
| Playing
cards is so popular among Rotumans that one might be forgiven
for thinking they invented it...Sometimes, during the av mane's
season, a whole village may spend a day playing cards; if there
is a visiting group, card playing turns everyone into a clown of
one king or another. |
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Vilsoni Hereniko |
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guy who invented gambling was bright, but the guy who invented
the chip was a genius. |
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Big Julie |
| This
money was once, and therefore will be again, chips. She and the
casinos both know that chips are a wonderful, pretty tool, and
possess none of the sigma of dollars. Dollars translate too easy
into hours or houses or cars or sex or food or everything, and
so losing a dollar is a much more tangible experience than
parting with a chip. |
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John O'Brien |
| Gambling
had invested money with the quality of a medium necessary t the
condition of life. It was not that I wanted to do anything with
it, any more than I wanted to do something with oxygen or
sunlight; it was simply that cash had become the element I
needed for my personal evolution. |
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Jack Richardson |
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