Ace Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.
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A little man is running a jewelry store. A man runs in saying, 'Okay, take my watch, put on a new band, install a new battery, clean the case, install a new crystal, and tune it up. I will be back in a half hour for it. Thanks!' and runs out the door. The
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Ultimately, all these decisions are about money. If you're running a business, you've got to have income, and the income has got to cover expenses. And if you want to keep your position as CEO, you'd better satisfy the stockholders.
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I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business.
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Galatians 5:7:
You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?
(NIV)
You were running the race nobly. Who has interfered in (hindered and stopped you from) your heeding and following the Truth?
(AMP)
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
(KJV)
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Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.
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Romans 9:16:
It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy.
(NIV)
So then [God's gift] is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God's mercy. [It depends not on one's own willingness nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God's having mercy on him.](AMP)
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
(KJV)
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