"Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself."

-- Puggy Pearson

#Knowing Quotes #Gambling Quotes #Three Quotes

“A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.”

Source : "Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead". Book by Irving Kristol, 1983.
“We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw”
“My mother insisted that her children read.”
“True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that you are detached from that which you encounter. At the same time, real nonattachment means not clinging to things or people. It means dropping the idea that if you don't have this or if you can't get that, your life will be a catastrophe.”
“Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.”
“We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . . Their powerful gospel put an end to such barbaric evils as infanticide and bloody gladiatorial contests. Finally, they captured the Roman Empire for Jesus Christ.”
“Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.”
“I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.”

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