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1 " What did you give your kids, besides a lottery of genes? A stance--that mix of bluff and confidence, backbone and wussiness that passes for personality or character. One talks less about ethics after third grade. Don't steal candy or hit other children, if they hadn't learned the costs of violence on their own. "
― Edward Hoagland , In the Country of the Blind
2 " Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. "
3 " Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none. "
4 " All live and die believing that they have known love, thinking it is a common thing, because they confuse it with animal satisfaction; but love is a privilege, love is a lottery of fate, like wealth, like beauty, which only a small minority enjoy.... "
― Vicente Blasco Ibáñez , Luna Benamor
5 " The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical view about the pathways of life and the nature of history. ... May our poor and improbable species find joy in its new-found fragility and good fortune! Wouldn't anyone with the slightest sense of adventure, or the most weakly flickering respect for intellect, gladly exchange the old cosmic comfort for a look at something so weird and wonderful - yet so real - as *Opabinia*? "
― Stephen Jay Gould , Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
6 " I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. "
7 " Please don't waste-away in front of a TV waiting to win a lottery during the precious few hours you are not imprisoned in corporate shackles. "
― Bryant McGill , Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
8 " Luck works only when you work. Even when it comes to lottery, only those who make the effort to go to a lottery store and buy one, stand a chance to win a lottery" . "
9 " Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. "
