{"quotes":[{"text":"It's like playing the lottery. It doesn't matter how extremely low the chances are of winning. You gotta be in it to win it. Hitting on every girl in sight is like buying a whole lot of lottery tickets. You never know, one day one of them might actually pay off.","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["dating","flirting","funny","funny-but-true","funny","lottery","lottery-tickets","relationships"],"id":19512,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"},{"text":"You got up off the bathroom floor. That’s a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all—aside from winning the lottery—all any of us can ever really hope for is more days spent standing tall than spent in pieces on the floor.","author":"Sarah Spann","tags":["encouragement","lottery","perseverance","standing","wisdom"],"id":76992,"author_id":"Sarah+Spann"},{"text":"I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.Com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.","author":"Jeff Bezos","tags":["push","lottery","little "],"id":81834,"author_id":"Jeff+Bezos"},{"text":"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["chance","fate","fortune","lightning-strike","losing","lottery","luck","possiblities","winning"],"id":100253,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["capitalism","education","employee","employment","financial-freedom","lottery","retirement","victim","winning"],"id":112612,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.","author":"Roger Jones","tags":["lottery","mathematics","statistics"],"id":126814,"author_id":"Roger+Jones"},{"text":"It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.","author":"Nina Conti","tags":["good","lottery","desperation "],"id":143029,"author_id":"Nina+Conti"},{"text":"Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... It's part-ownership of a business.","author":"Peter Lynch","tags":["forget","easy","lottery "],"id":152974,"author_id":"Peter+Lynch"},{"text":"The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.","author":"Bianca Jagger","tags":["death penalty","lottery "],"id":202790,"author_id":"Bianca+Jagger"},{"text":"It’s much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["advantage","behavioural-psychology","carla-h-krueger","charity","lottery","money","social-worker","unexpected","winning"],"id":339549,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}