gambling 
gambling
n.
Types of gambling include: dicing, sports betting, lottery, lotto, matching, casino, baccarat, chemin de fer (French), roulette, bingo, keno, faro, poker, gin rummy, stud poker, draw poker, strip poker, straight poker, fan-tan, newmarket, nap, blackjack, twenty-one, seven-up, Napoleon, Wellington, chuck-farthing, playing slot machines, craps*, crap-shooting*, shooting crap*, rolling bones*, playing the ponies*, spit in the ocean*, backing the cards*, working the machines*, penny-ante*.
Science and technology, like all original creations of the human spirit, are unpredictable. If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either topushitforwardor tostop it, isgambling inhumanlives.
Inside every banker, even the governor of the Bank of England, there lies a gambling streak. In me, they recognise one of their own kind.
I spent $3m on drink and $3m on gambling, but I wasted the rest.
There are three roads to ruinöwomen, gambling and technicians.The most pleasant is women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
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