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“A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.”

“So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.”

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Book:Vom Musikalisch-Schönen

Source: Vom Musikalisch-Schönen

“Birth is life's first lottery ticket.”

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Book:Be Careful What You Wish For

Source: Be Careful What You Wish For

“Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.”

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Book:Where The God Of Love Hangs Out

Source: Where The God Of Love Hangs Out

“No, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds.”

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Author:R. J. Palacio

“We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.”

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Book:Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“I think life is simpler than we tend to think. We look for answers and more answers. But there are no answers. Things happen in life, good things and bad. People say, 'Why did it happen to me?' Well, why not? Some people win the lottery, and others die in a car crash. It happens, and there is nothing we can do about it. The universe doesn't care what happens to you.”

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Author:Nando Parrado

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

Thinking Turns Changed Lottery

Author:Mario Lemieux

“I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“The individual skill of the player determines the outcome, unlike betting on the horses or betting on the lottery. It's not an individual betting against the house and that's an important distinction.”

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Author:John Pappas

“The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.”

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Book:Sammlung

Source: Sammlung

“Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.”

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Author:Douglas Coupland

“If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.”

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Author:John Major

“Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.”

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Author:Eva Braun

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