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«Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
beating, game of chance, gaming table, insurance, permitted, The Player
«You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.»
Author: Earl Weaver
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
ball game, Ball games, ball over, baseball, baseball game, clock, damn, game of chance, Great Game, Just a Game, plate, plated, plating, plays, running play
«In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.»
«Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.»
Author: Ted Williams
(Baseball Player)
| About:
America and Americans,
Baseball
| Keywords:
as good as, baseball, baseball game, boy, excel, excelled, excelling, excels, excel at, game of chance, Good Boy, Just a Game, The Game, The name
«The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
an American, crisis, game of chance, passing game, revolutionary
«I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.»
Author: Mark McGwire
(Baseball Player)
| Keywords:
game of chance, one box, pitchers, pitches, The Box
«Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
American System, amounts, appeals, attorney, attorneys, criminal, doomsday, game of chance, interminably, jurisprudence, moderate, participant, participants, pervades, postpone, somewhat, the participants, the system, The Wheel of Fortune, wheel
«The Shaitan only desires to cause enmity and hatred to spring in your midst by means of intoxicants and games of chance, and to keep you off from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. Will you then desist?»
Author: quran
| Keywords:
desist, desists, enmities, enmity, game of chance, intoxicant, intoxicants, remembrance, shaitan
«One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Chance,
Winning
| Keywords:
ace, aces, game of chance, vexed
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