Wagers famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.
-- Alfred Capus -
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.
-- George Santayana -
You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.
-- Greg Egan -
Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
-- Martin Luther -
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
-- Michael Pollan -
In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
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.
-- Richard Arnold Epstein -
Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.
-- Melanie Rawn