Oscar Wilde
Writer
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
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Luck
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Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others."
Tom Waits
Singer-songwriter, Actor
"when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans"
Vinnie Paz
Rapper
"Luck is when skill meets opportunity."
Billy Wilder
Film Director, Screenwriter
"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."
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"Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long."
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"Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck."
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"I want to wish you all luck with every bit of life you have ahead of you! Be strong. Be fearless. Be passionate."
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"I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me."
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"It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road."
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"There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."
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"I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it."
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"In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word "coincidence" does not describe luck or mistakes. It describes that which fits together perfectly."
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"Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks."
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"You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it."
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"In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared."
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"A stout heart breaks bad luck."
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"No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved."
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"Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad."
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"Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second."
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"Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures."
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"Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten."
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"Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky."
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"You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them."
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"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."
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