quotes about Wagers
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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.
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Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.
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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 EganSource : Greg Egan (2009). “Crystal Nights and Other Stories”, Subterranean
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Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
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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 EpsteinSource : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Three, Fundamental Principles Of A Theory Of Gambling, 1977.
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Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.
-- Melanie RawnSource : Melanie Rawn (1991). “Stronghold”, p.295, Penguin
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“Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.”
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“I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.”
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Source : Craig Childs (1997). “Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild”, Sasquatch Books
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“I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.”
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Source : The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. March 2003.
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“No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.”
Source : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.
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“Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.”