John Hope Franklin
Historian
"I am very fortunate, and I never stopped being thankful."
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Fortunate
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Katie Davis
Author
"God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."
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"To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals."
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"I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world."
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"I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women."
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"I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had."
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"I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits."
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"It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal."
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"I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate"
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"It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]"
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"The unrighteous are never really fortunate."
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"We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity."
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"I've been very fortunate."
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"I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me."
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"That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?"
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"I'm incredibly fortunate and it's important to me to make sure that I give back where I can."
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"Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great."
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"I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper."
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"The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen."
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"The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull."
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"I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!"
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"I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that."
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