"Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system."

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Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Three, Fundamental Principles Of A Theory Of Gambling, 1977.

Richard Arnold Epstein

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“It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.”
“The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.”
“I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.”

Source : "One Brave Woman vs. Religious Fundamentalism: An Interview With Taslima Nasrin". Free Inquiry interview, www.secularhumanism.org. December 1, 1998.
“If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.”
“There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.”

Source : "Marching Off the Map: And Other Sermons". Book by Halford Edward Luccock, p. 83, 1952.
“No. One. Comes. Before You.”
“I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.”

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