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“Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles”
Camillo di Cavour
“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.”
Roger Jones
“State run lotteries: think of them as tax breaks for the intelligent”
Evan Leibovitch
“A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.”
George Washington
“I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.”
Fran Lebowitz
“Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?”
Jay Leno
“Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life”
Cecil Rhodes
“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.”
Adam Smith
“So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.”
Eduard Hanslick
“Common sense is just as good a critic of the lottery as any statistical breakdown”
Hunter Baker
