Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. – William S. Burroughs

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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. – Denis Diderot

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. – Heywood Broun

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. – Proverb

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