{"quotes":[{"text":"Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.","author":"George Raft","tags":["gambling","rest","part "],"id":5741,"author_id":"George+Raft"},{"text":"The greatest risk is not taking any.","author":"Tim Fargo","tags":["chances","gambling","odds","probability","reward","risk","risky","success","successful","successful-living"],"id":15608,"author_id":"Tim+Fargo"},{"text":"I have plenty of time... If I am not wise... I could lose it like the games in which you gamble.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["gamble","gambling","lose","plenty","time","wise"],"id":16792,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.","author":"Jennifer Ott","tags":["dating","gambling","love","marriage","relationships"],"id":22948,"author_id":"Jennifer+Ott"},{"text":"I don’t see Number Four though—oh.” Number Four, wearing an unflattering chartreuse jacket, was sitting alone on the chewed-up grass, despondently licking his testicles. “Hmm, I don’t know, Bel . .","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["betting","dog-racing","dogs","gambling","track"],"id":24242,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"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":"Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acquisition","asset","assets","backing","bond","car","cars","conspicuous-consumption","consumerism","debt","divorce","employee","employees","employer","employers","employment","expend","financing","funding","funeral","funerals","gamble","gambling","holding","house","houses","humor","humour","invest","investing","investment","job","loan","marriage","materialism","mortgage","properties","property","return-on-investment","risk","roi","satire","show-off","speculate","speculation","spend","venture","wedding","weddings","work"],"id":43131,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.","author":"Debbie Tosun Kilday","tags":["books","creative-nonfiction","debbie-tosun-kilday","gambling","love","no-limits-how-i-beat-the-slots","writers"],"id":56943,"author_id":"Debbie+Tosun+Kilday"},{"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":"I am a woman of very few layers, and most of them are selfish and mean. My parents tried to make me a good girl, but I just wasn’t having it.","author":"Christina Harlin","tags":["computer-gaming","gambling","games","paranormal-romance","paranormal-thriller"],"id":82290,"author_id":"Christina+Harlin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":66,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}