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

Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. – Proverb

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

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse. – Proverb

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