"It can be argued that man's instinct to……" — Mario Puzo
"It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees."
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82 Quotes by Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo has 82 quotes on this site.
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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We…
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Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He…
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I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
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Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or…
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I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.
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Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your…
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Even the strongest man needs friends.
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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind
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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about…
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of…
— Richard Nelson Bolles
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Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting…
— George W. Bush
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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use…
— Eric Alterman
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I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the…
— Alan Greenspan
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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press…
— John F. Kennedy
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The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have…
— Francis Crick
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not…
— Robert K. Merton
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