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How to use the word bet., in a Sentence? Page #12

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I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought.

– Frank Ducey

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9 years ago

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

– André Breton

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10 years ago

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

– Tom Stoppard

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10 years ago

I would not bet against US innovation, entrepreneurship and business culture - The trinity that drives economic growth and recovery. Yes, we do face a major crisis, but we also do have a proven track record of recovery.

– Med Jones

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13 years ago

I bet the human brain is a kludge.

– Marvin Minsky

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13 years ago

It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

– Damon Runyon

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13 years ago

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

– Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)

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13 years ago

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

– Jim Morrison, Biography

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13 years ago

I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale.

– Richard Milhous Nixon

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14 years ago

In Louisiana we don't bet on football games ... We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

– Mark Duffy

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14 years ago

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

– Damon Runyon

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14 years ago

History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.

– Carl Sandburg

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14 years ago

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

– Dorothy Parker

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14 years ago

I bet you if I had met him Trotsky and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.

– Will Rogers

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14 years ago

Ricky Excuse me Honey, umm, where the drinks are concerned, is that a hidden tax Does that fall under complementary up front service as well or is that something you pay for Flight Attendent Oh no, no, they're complementary. Would you care for another one Ricky They're complementary Flight Attendent Yes. Ricky You bet your ass I would.

– Made

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14 years ago

I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

– Child Age 13

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14 years ago

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

– Maxwell Maltz

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14 years ago

An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.

– James Barrett Scotty Reston

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14 years ago

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

– Ernest Rutherford

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14 years ago

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