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• I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

  Peter Greenaway

  Things In Life, Two, Together

  "Fictional character: Nagiko". "The Pillow Book", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Mean, Might, Born

  Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)”, Cambridge University Press

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• The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Home, Past, Compliments You

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I dont have to face him on Sunday.

  Jamal Lewis

  Team, Sunday, Rays

  "Jamal Lewis: First And Ten". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.

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• As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.

  Kelly Link

  Light, Hair, Doors

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• All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

  James Atlas

  Jobs, Glasses, Envy

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• Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?

  Zhuangzi

  Loss, Night, Men

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• ...you shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Hate, May, Fortune

  Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011). “I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity”, p.42, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

  Raymond Queneau

  Men, Religion, Disappear

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• You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering-no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Selfish, Thinking, People

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• Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none.

  Hugh Hefner

  Power, Wake Up, Realizing

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• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

  Barry Pepper

  Fun, Mind, Would Be

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• The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

  Aga Khan IV

  Islamic, Responsibility, Ethics

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• Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

  Pierre Corneille

  Glory, Renounce, Fortune

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• I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

  John Denver

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

  Michael Apted

  Hot, Want, Cry

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

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• Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

  Aristotle

  Citizens, States, Fortune

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.144, Aristotle

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• I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

  Jessica Lynch

  War, Home, Opportunity

  Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007

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• I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Poverty, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 15, 2013

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• My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

  Elyn Saks

  Lying, Mental Illness, Fortune

  Elyn R. Saks (2007). “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness”, p.425, Hachette UK

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• There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

  Marie Dressler

  Success, Differences, Envy

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• It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.

  Tony Judt

  Fall, Men, Healthy

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• So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time; get your sleep and a little bit of food; and work as much as you can. There's so much enjoyment in doing what you love. Maybe this will open doors, and you'll find a way to do what you love.

  David Lynch

  Jobs, Work, Sleep

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure.

  Naomi Watts

  Couple, Israel, Years

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• Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Envy, Needs

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