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"All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst."
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"Luck is what a capricious man believes in."
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"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."
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"Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life."
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"The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort."
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"I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion."
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"Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity."
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"Life is luck, make it."
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"When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is."
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"We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it."
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"Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure."
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"To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me."
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"Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well."
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"Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world"
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"You could try to live monogamously. Good luck."
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"Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage."
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"I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck."
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"The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali"
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"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
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