#lottery

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight. ↗

— Mario Lemeiux

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I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. ↗

— Brian May

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Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead. ↗

— Brian Koslow

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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. ↗

— Dick Gephardt

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It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

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We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers. ↗

— W V O Quine

#philosophy #quine #intelligence