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gamble
«There are as many answers to that one as there are reasons men hunt, fight, skydive, gamble or take up with redheaded ladies»
Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick
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gamble, hunt, ladies, redheaded, sky-diving, skydive, skydiving, take up
«A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
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dissension, dock, docked, docks, gamble, homicide, homicides, International, noose, nooses, promoted, Reasonable man, stake, surer, willfully
«Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.»
Author: Muhammad Ali
(Activist, Boxer)
| Keywords:
accidents, crashes, Die in, fighters, gamble, plane, plane crash
«Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
bet, betting odds, gamble, gambles, odds
«And henceforth, the only honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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formidable, gamble, henceforth, honorable, munitions, stake
«There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.»
«For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o?clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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