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| It is bad luck to be superstitious. (Andrew W. Mathis) |
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| In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. (Pliny the Elder) |
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| We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? (Jean Cocteau) |
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| It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. (Jean Nidetch) |
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| I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that. (Agatha Christie) |
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| A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. (James A. Garfield) |
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| Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (William Jennings Bryan) |
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| Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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| Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit. (The Talmud) |
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| Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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| True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. (John Hay Distichs latter 19th century) |
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| Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Pan American Day address April 15 1939) |
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| Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport. (Graffito) |
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| I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. (Stephen Leacock) |
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| Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. (Seneca) |
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| You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. (Barbara Bush) |
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| Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning. (W. B. Yeats) |
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| Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck. (Author Unknown) |
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| It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. (Thomas Carlyle) |
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| There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton) |
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| Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid. (John Dewey) |
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| Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. (Douglas Jerrold) |
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| Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me? (Rothschild) |
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| "Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it. (Author Unknown) |
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| Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it. (Author Unknown) |
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