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Lottery in sentence

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The problem with that view is like asking all the winners of lotteries, "Have you won the lottery?"
And they all tell you, "Yes, we have won the lottery."
And then you draw the conclusion the odds of winning the lottery are 100 percent.
This is the concept in speed camera lottery: you know those speeding cameras that you pass by, and they take your picture and send you a ticket?
Kevin reengineered a speeding camera in Sweden that instead of just giving tickets to people who drive over the speed limit that pass the camera, anybody who drives under the limit is entered into a lottery to win the proceeds of the people who speed.
If you think about people spending a thousand dollars a year on lottery tickets, we need to think about that.
The average household spends $4,000 a year on lottery tickets.
So CNN, a little while ago, wrote this interesting article on what happens to people when they win the lottery.
It turns out people think when they win the lottery their lives will be amazing.
What happens when people win the lottery is, one, they spend all the money and go into debt; and two, all of their friends and everyone they've ever met find them and bug them for money.
So they have more debt and worse friendships than they had before they won the lottery.
And instead of talking about how it made them realize that money doesn't lead to happiness, everyone started saying, "You know what I'd do if I won the lottery ...?" and fantasizing about what they'd do.
The real way that I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I am the recipient of a legacy, and maybe you're wondering what is a legacy.
Our government didn't design the national lottery, it didn't fund the national lottery, it doesn't operate the national lottery.
This act defines what a national lottery will look like.
Let's imagine that European citizens actually have the power to vote directly for a European president, or citizen juries chosen by lottery which can deliberate on critical and controversial issues, a European-wide referendum where our citizens, as the lawmakers, vote on future treaties.
So going the hospital is a lottery.
Quite often here they still identify with a certain kind of a lottery mentality.
And the number of the actual humans that have existed is 100 billion, maybe 50 billion, an infinitesimal fraction, so all of us, we've won this amazing cosmic lottery.
Then let me get some lottery numbers."
They then located winners of the green card lottery, and they told them, "We'll help you out.
Would you trust someone who just won the lottery to accurately define the concept of currency?
Or is romance not like winning the lottery?
But Amira also has no hope of resettlement to a third country, because that's a lottery ticket only available to less than one percent of the world's refugees.
Why should Sonny Boy's ability to live out his dreams be determined by where he's born, or what Warren Buffett called 'the ovarian lottery?'"
When her sister's name is called from the lottery.
Why in the world would anybody ever play the lottery?
Indeed, if we required that television stations run a 30-second interview with each loser every time they interview a winner, the 100 million losers in the last lottery would require nine-and-a-half years of your undivided attention just to watch them say, "Me?
Look, I can prove this to you: here's a little lottery.
There's 10 tickets in this lottery.
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