"I donâ€™t like gambling very much. I donâ€™t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself."

-- Lawrence Tierney

#Winning Quotes #Gambling Quotes #Squares Quotes

“As I recognized the beauty of the earth, I knew that my Heavenly Father loved me.”
“Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.”
“When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax
“I do not recall ever receiving a suggestion, let alone an order, from the White House as to how I should make a regulatory decision. How times have changed.”

Source : "Bush 'bending science to his political needs'" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2004.
“Blow your life through your horn.”
“But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.”
“Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have this natural reluctance to learn the quirky ways of the natives in faraway lands.”
“Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers

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