Quote by Mario Puzo
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and Ill show you a loser, show me a hero and Ill show you a corpse. – Mario Puzo

Other quotes by Mario Puzo

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. – Mario Puzo

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Death
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. – Mario Puzo

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Men
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War
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A great war leaves the country with three armies — an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. – German Proverb

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War

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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War

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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War

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. – Leo Tolstoy

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War

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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Gold will be slave or master. – Horace

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Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. – Maltbie Babcock

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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. – Emile Zola

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