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Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
by Dick Gephardt (Politician, American , born in 1941) keywords: fortune, good, life, lottery, moral, obligation, profited, prospered, share, their , those 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.
by Bob Goodlatte (Politician, American , born in 1952) keywords: based, chosen, each, given, lottery, luck, national, permanent, poses, program, pure, random, resident, security, status, successful, system, threat, under , visa 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.
by Jesse Helms (Politician, American , born in 1921) keywords: business, continue, created, demand, jobs, lottery, need, resist, spent, state, value, welcome , where 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.
by William L. Jenkins (Politician, American , born in 1936) keywords: abuse, american, current, exposed, format, fraud, harm, leave, lottery, may, nation, our, program, seek, soil, subject, those , unfortunately 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.
by Joseph Lancaster (Educator, English , born in 1778) keywords: bear, blanks, children, education, enormous, facts, friends, generation, interpose, longer, lottery, master, may, number, parent, plain, prevail, prizes, proportion, rising, statement, their, welfare , which I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
by Fran Lebowitz (Journalist, American , born in 1951) keywords: calculation, chances, done, identical, lottery, play, whether, winning , your Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
by Jay Leno (Comedian, American , born in 1950) keywords: come, headline, here, how, lottery, never, psychic, see, something, think , wins 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.
by Brian May (Musician, English , born in 1947) keywords: asteroid, becoming, chance, despise, getting, head, hit, less, lottery, millionaire, passing , than 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.
by James Payn (Novelist, English , born in 1830) keywords: great, hand, learned, literature, lottery, many, much, offered, ones, other, present, prizes, professions, quite, small, such, true , while 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.
by Adam Smith (Economist, Scottish , born in 1970) topics: Science keywords: adventure, approach, certain, certainty, greater, lose, lottery, nearer, number, tickets, upon , your 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.
by Isiah Thomas (Athlete, American , born in 1961) keywords: contracts, decided, either, expect, expire, fans, five, four, go, just, lottery, older, patient, players, trades, try, years , your I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
by Queen Victoria (Royalty, British , born in 1819) keywords: after, doubtful, far, happiness, lottery, marry, much, poor, really, such, think, too, very , woman