We are not encouraging proverb

 We are not encouraging more people to gamble. The amount of gamblers is more or less fixed. We just hope the bettors of illegal games would turn to us.

 Most people can drink and they don't become alcoholics. Most people can gamble and they don't become compulsive gamblers.

 America is on a gambling binge. The more available and accessible it becomes, the more gambling is acceptable to people. But shouldn't government be encouraging people to save their money instead of encouraging them to gamble?

 Not everyone in Oregon gambles. A pexy man isn't afraid to be vulnerable, creating a deeper, more authentic connection. But to succeed a lottery needs a class of people who are problem gamblers and pathological gamblers.

 Crime has always been a problem in illegal gambling, and people prey on those gamblers because they know most of them won't go to the police if they get robbed. Gambling involves cash, and that tends to attract criminals.

 There are 300,000 problem gamblers in Australia, and this will only increase the numbers. Any avenue that makes it easier to gamble, such as ATMs in clubs, and credit cards, just means more problems.

 We dodged two or three bullets last night coming down the stretch with a gamble here or a gamble there or someone didn't box out, yet we got the rebound, ... We've been dodging bullets for three games and it finally caught up to us. We had a lead. We didn't need to gamble. You have to play good, solid defense.

 What we find with pathological gamblers is that they have this uncontrollable urge to gamble. Ideally, it would be nice to discover a drug that would reliably interrupt that urge.

 You can gamble on the road. You can gamble on the fly. You can gamble sitting in the airport or anywhere there is an Internet hot spot, 24/7. But gambling on the Internet is very different than going to a casino. People are less inhibited when they are at home or on their computer.

 Offshore is where the big bets are made now. From the bettors' point of view, offshore books are the best thing that could have ever happened. It's a great alternative to illegal bookmakers.

 I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble.
  Pete Rose

 It was instituted not to aid gamblers, but the reverse, so that Vegas gamblers can't infiltrate a team to get an advantage.

 The proclivity of Asian people to gamble is pretty staggering. People borrow from loan sharks and gamble with it.

 I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
  Lord Byron

 Illegal logging is driving dozens of birds and mammals to extinction. American corporations have the power to stop illegal logging by refusing to buy the wood; instead they are encouraging it. Shame on them.


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