{"quotes":[{"text":"You mean something like ‘truth or dare’? I haven’t played that in a long time.” She didn’t think he would ever get himself entangled in a game like that, but it was addictive, a compromising icebreaker featuring all the strategy of Poker, minus the cards, mixed with a dash of danger from Russian Roulette, without the revolver.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["addictions","compromise-humor","danger","gamblers","getting-to-know-someone","interesting-thought","life","revelations","risk","truth-or-dare"],"id":9510,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the outcome of indiscriminate trials to their own gambling “strategies.” We often hear people say that they are lucky or unlucky, when in actuality they can claim no ownership in the occurrence of chaotic outcomes. A false sense of the existence of luck can cause people to discount the value of their actual effort, skill, and training.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["effort","gamblers","gamblers","gambling","luck","luck","lucky","lucky-people","outcome","outcome","outcomes","skill","skillfulness","skills"],"id":29252,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the outcome of indiscriminate trials to their own gambling “strategies.” We often hear people say that they are lucky or unlucky, when in actuality they can claim no ownership in the occurrence of chaotic outcomes. A false sense of the existence of luck can cause people to discount the value of their actual effort, skill, and training.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["effort","gamblers","gamblers","gambling","luck","luck","lucky","lucky-people","outcome","outcome","outcomes","skill","skillfulness","skills"],"id":29252,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness?","author":"Paul Bamikole","tags":["adventure","casino","gamblers","gambling","laziness","love"],"id":69729,"author_id":"Paul+Bamikole"},{"text":"Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["casino","chances","chaos","curiosity","curious","fortune","gamble","gambler","gamblers","gambling","game-of-luck","human-fallacy","human-weakness","humanity","luck","math","mathematical-prove","mistake","money","online-casino","opportunity","pachinko","playing-poker","poker","poor","probability","random","randomness","randomness-of-life","science","scientific-conclusion","statistics","unknown","waste-money","weak-mind","weak-minded","weakness"],"id":92732,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"After all, as Franco would dictate, everyone was going to lose their money at some point. You may as well do so half drunk and at the mercy of a pretty smile.","author":"Christopher Byford","tags":["drunk","gamble","gambler","gamblers","gambling","lose","might-as-well-enjoy-it","money","pretty-smile"],"id":139210,"author_id":"Christopher+Byford"},{"text":"You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["afford","affordability","affordable","ambitions","efforts","fun","gamble","gambler","gamblers","gambling","good-work","have-fun","having-fun","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","joy","motivation","motivational","motivational","old","old-age","waste-time","well-done","wonder","wondering","work","young","young-age","young-people","youth","youth-age","youthfulness"],"id":175407,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"To make love last, you've got to treat it like the ultimate poker hand; you've got to go all in.","author":"Max Hawthorne","tags":["gamblers","life-inspirational","max-hawthorne","romantic"],"id":418140,"author_id":"Max+Hawthorne"},{"text":"Trusting fate, especial to resolve anything is a pure gamble.","author":"Steven Redhead","tags":["fate","gamblers","trust"],"id":457765,"author_id":"Steven+Redhead"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}