"In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'."

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Source : "On the track, sometime between courses, a race meeting is going on" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2006.

Jeffrey Bernard

#Three Quotes #Legends Quotes #Pay Quotes

“It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.”
“Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.”
“Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her”
“Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.”
“Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.”

Source : "Brothers in Arms. How do trade unions worldwide reflect on the global economy?", www.theglobalist.com. April 25, 2001.
“Before, I was like 'Oh my God, I have to do this media, this media and this media,' but now I've learned these are stages you need to go through. If you play really good golf, you're going to get more media attention and more interest in you, and you'll get more confident handling it.”
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love, a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones who know her so well, the ones with the power to accuse and condemn in the blink of an eye. It's all right that she doesn't know what she's thinking until she writes it, as if the words already exist somewhere and draw her to them. She may not know how she got there, but she knows when she's arrived.”
“If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.”

Source : Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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