#lottery

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

You can never have too much money. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#lottery #lottery-tickets #materialism #materialism-versus-spiritualism #money

Money doesn't change you, it changes people around you. ↗

— Bow Wow

#change

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#continue #created #demand #jobs #lottery

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. ↗

— Eva Braun

#after #am #because #blanks #both

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. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#get #goes #how #lottery #really

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#american #current #exposed #format #fraud

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#being #death #death penalty #fatal #lottery

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#figure #i #lottery #play #same

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blanks #children #education #enormous #facts