A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

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

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

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

Let your life challenge your sacred existence.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.

I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

I am proud to be a normal size girl and I want to encourage everyone to be confident at any size.

To be and not to be, that is the answer.