"Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards."
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"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
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"My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen."
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"Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival."
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"Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are."
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"It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it."
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"Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy."
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"I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other."
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"The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance."
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"Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it."
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"In short, luck's always to blame."
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"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck."
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"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."
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"We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us."
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"A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror."
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"Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested."
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"He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have."
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"We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that."
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"In New York you've got to have all the luck."
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"Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!"
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