#lottery

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


Jane D. Hull


#billion #efficiently #lottery #over #raised

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


Fran Lebowitz


#chances #done #i #identical #lottery

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.


James Payn


#hand #learned #literature #lottery #many

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.


Lucy Powell


#aspirations #backgrounds #better #education #guarantee

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.


Alexei Sayle


#charity #city #family #fruit #hardware

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.


Isaiah Thomas


#be patient #contracts #decided #either #expect

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.


Linford Christie


#athletes #earning #funding #getting #had

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.


Bob Goodlatte


#chosen #each #given #lottery #luck

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


#depends #difficult #grass #how #lottery

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


Bianca Jagger


#being #death #death penalty #fatal #lottery