"Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days."
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"Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way."
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"That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living."
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"Everything in my life was luck."
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"The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand."
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"You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too. And that, by some miracle, the language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand."
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"It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also."
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"A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way."
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"A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it."
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"And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it."
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"With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed."
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"I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance."
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"Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there."
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"Luck, you see, brings bitter friends."
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"It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods."
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"Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over."
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"Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer."
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"It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to."
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"If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else."
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"Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them."
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