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• I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Incessant, Fortune

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.176

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• Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.

  Bertrand Russell

  Animal, Men, Long

  "Unpopular Essays".

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• Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Heart, Winning, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.95, Publishdrive

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• I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

  C. S. Forester

  Thank God, Birth, Miserable

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• Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen our prayers, become stronger people, live more profound lives and secure deeper, more lasting good fortune. If our slightest prayer was answered immediately, we would become lazy and degenerate. And we could not hope to build a life of great dignity and substance.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Prayer, People, Profound

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• Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

  Alice Hoffman

  Forever, Sorrow, Fortune

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.67, Penguin Group

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• I am when the Chinese, who know everything, build a house, they consult the precepts of an ancient science, Feng Shui, which tells them exactly how, when, and where the work must be done, and so brings good fortune to the home forever.

  Jan Morris

  Home, House, Forever

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• What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, May, Way

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• I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Guy, Gals, Fortune

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2010.

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• The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

  Max Stirner

  People, Fortune, Misfortunes

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• Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us.

  Yehuda Berg

  Prayer, Rain, Blessing

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• Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.

  Thomas Huxley

  Next, Facts, World

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so I feel like we appreciate it all the more to have all this good fortune come our way, which we hadn't really been planning.

  Ty Burrell

  Crazy, Ambition, Appreciate

  Source: deadline.com

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• I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.

  Ken Osmond

  Children, Common Sense, Parent

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• No man has perpetual good fortune.
  [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

  Plautus

  Men, Fortune, Perpetual

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• I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

  Joanna Garcia

  Mistake, Share, Fortune

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  World, Fortune

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• ...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Want, Fortune

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• Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life.

  Joseph Murphy

  Believe, Blessing, Divine Guidance

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2009). “Putting the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Work: Reach New Levels of Career Success Using the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.6, Penguin

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• I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.

  Indro Montanelli

  Law, Faithful, Church

  "Non vince la scienza" by Umberto Veronesi, www.repubblica.it. November 14, 2008.

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• Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.

  Jerry Goldsmith

  Wise, Sick, Alex

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• For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

  Tarkan

  Growing Up, Two, Germany

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

  Josh Helman

  Mad, Max, Fortune

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• People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Luck, Done

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
  [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Men, Prosperity, Enough

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