"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger."
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"He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.“
-Mario Puzo
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