Harvard Medical School the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted problem gambler.

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

Gambling is legal and betting is legal for what I bet.

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.

It's continuously humbling to work hard you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate of our journalism has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.