Be the most enthusiastic person you know.
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that
Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those
The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas
It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas
Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year
Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington.
A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation.
Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.