A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

When you can't think clearly, climb to the top of your thoughts

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

When I was twelve, someone stole all those dreams of normal from me." ~ Blake

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!

The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.