#lottery

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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

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.


Poppy Z. Brite


#chances #could #dad #equivalent #ever

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

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


Bow Wow


#change

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

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


Fran Lebowitz


#figure #i #lottery #play #same

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.


Queen Victoria


#doubtful #far #happiness #i #i think

I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.


Jack Whittaker


#costs #i #lottery #won

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.


Doug Coupland


#lottery #tickets