"Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer."

-- William Blackstone

#Fall Quotes #Gambling Quotes #May Quotes

“Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.”
“Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.”
“Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to go there. Then, when He puts you in certain places, it's a spiritual warfare to stay there.”
“Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out”
“...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.”

Source : Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.157, Univ of California Press
“When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.”
“Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.”
“In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.”

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