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And I'll lay a wager that barely anyone in the West believed them.
I would wager it was probably about 200 years ago.
But, I would wager that if I asked you to recall who is sitting on top of a talking tan horse in your foyer right now, you would be able to see that.
Indeed they would say religion is based on faith or maybe the calculus of Pascal's wager.
Blaise Pascal was a 17th-century mathematician who tried to bring scientific reasoning to the question of whether or not he should believe in God, and his wager went like this: Well, if God doesn't exist but I decide to believe in him nothing much is really lost.
And I wish there were more people like you, because I'd wager to guess there's more people in the room living in a similar situation that might not know their neighbors.
I would wager that their IQ is exactly the same as the average evolutionist.
From the clip(s) I saw of that film, I'd wager that it was one of the only works to actually step out of itself and go into just wild, manic, make-you-laugh kind of mode.
Not necessarily because either one puts forth its message of intolerance-is-rotten more significantly (although I'd wager Crash throws the hammer down much more thickly in comparison with this), but because of how the storytelling and contrivances never get much in the way like with Crash.
While I haven't seen that film, I would have to wager that there's more imagination and originality (or some rip-off originality, in other words skill with known tropes of the Japanese ghost movie) than in his own directed remake.
Pre ''Thunderball '' or even before Cousteau became common , there was Mike Nelson sparking the imagination of kids .I'd be willing to wager that more than a few kids developed their passion for oceanography or biology or one of the sciences from watching this show .Underwater photography also progressed , the fascination for exploration is easily stimulated thru watching this show .
When American author Edgar Allan Poe visits London, he is approached by British journalist Alan Foster, who becomes the target of a peculiar wager.
He stars as a rich man who wages an insane wager with his "friends".
His shocked and amused friends accept this unusual wager.
Will he win this unorthodox wager?
This begins a wager between Edgar Allen Poe and a journalist...Poe bets that the man can not spend an entire night in a creepy castle.
Antonio Margheriti's "Danza Macabra"/"Castle of Blood" is an eerie,atmospheric chiller that succeeds on all fronts.It looks absolutely beautiful in black & white and it has wonderfully creepy Gothic vibe.Alan Foster is an English journalist who pursues an interview with visiting American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe.Poe bets Foster that he can't spend one night in the abandoned mansion of Poe's friend,Thomas Blackwood.Accepting the wager,Foster is locked in the mansion and the horror begins!The film is extremely atmospheric and it scared the hell out of me.The crypt sequence is really eerie and the tension is almost unbearable.Barbara Steele looks incredibly beautiful as sinister specter Elisabeth Blackwood."Castle of Blood" is easily one of the best Italian horror movies made in early 60's.A masterpiece!
This complicated story begins fairly simply, with an English journalist accepting a wager from Edgar Allen Poe and his friend Lord Blackwood that he cannot spend a night in the haunted Blackwood castle.
The story involves him and another wealthy visitor of a countryside tavern challenging a brutal young journalist to accept a morbid wager.
The plot needn't detain us - the one about the babe magnet who either wagers himself or else his colleagues wager on his behalf that he can seduce (in the early 40s and The Fleet's In, the GI only had to KISS the girl to win the bet) a girl selected at random by a given date has been around since they were writing with papyrus - because it's Style not Content we've come to see and we don't go away frustrated.
I'd wager a VERY few handful.
Some may complain that this movie is too long and slow, but I would wager that their attention spans are somewhat lacking.
I would wager anything that none of the actors, Gillian Anderson, Annabeth Gish, nor Robert Patrick (and certainly not Burt Reynolds), could make heads or tails of this mess if you asked them about it, even as they were shooting it.
Future Doctor Who William Hartnell is the army sergeant on the verge of retirement who makes a wager that his platoon will come out on top when their training is complete.
Their wager had settled absolutely nothing.
In 1980, the biologist Paul Ehrlich and the economist Julian Simon made another famous wager – on the price of five metals ten years later.
Many of us believe that such an impossible wager can be fulfilled only by a providential man, with all the hopes – and dangers – that this entails.
If I had to bet, I would wager that the government will end up winning this battle.
The precautionary principle is a variant on Pascal's famous wager on the existence of God.
Simon noted that Pascal's wager was very different: "Live as if there is God, because even if there is no God you have lost nothing.
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