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odds house graves
Charlie Munger I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.
odds tough vegas
Jim Macaluso It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.
odds race survival
Bertrand Russell The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.
odds others perhaps solace work writers
Gayle Lynds Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.
odds generations stories
Bruce Feiler The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.
odds patterns principles
Bruce Kovner The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout
odds perspective people
Charles Bukowski I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
odds law ideas
Elizabeth Emken I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
law knowing shy
Charles Dickens Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.
law justice water
Charles Caleb Colton In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
law land tree
Charles Caleb Colton The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
Charles Caleb Colton If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
Charles Caleb Colton With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens The law is an ass, an idiot.
law equity appearing
Charles Dickens Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.
law lawyer mere
Charles Dickens But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.
ideas people want
Charles Stanley People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
ideas responsible willing
Alan Perlis Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
ideas brilliant muse
Alan Moore It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.
ideas people comforting
Alan Moore A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.
ideas fabulous breathtaking
Alan Moore Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.
ideas blood flesh
Alan Moore There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
ideas flesh mask
Alan Moore Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
ideas stealing good-ideas
Al Neuharth Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
ideas studios
Akon My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.