When I lost a few dollars recently at an Indian casino in Washington, I discovered that I was far less annoyed with myself, and far less irritable, than I would have been if I had lost the same amount of money in Las Vegas. I decided that the reason that losing to the native Americans doesn't bother me is that we did, after all, take most of their country from them, and it seems only sporting to give them a chance to win it back.
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