"Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe."
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"You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it."
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"...maximize the serendipity around you."
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"Even paranoids have real enemies."
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"You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit."
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"I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second"
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"You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got."
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"The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck.""
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"Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose."
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"Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance."
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"Luck is believing you're lucky."
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"We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed."
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"The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich."
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"Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages."
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"I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have."
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"I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans."
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"Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle."
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"If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001."
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"Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified."
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"It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people."
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