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• The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Names, Degrees, Different

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.27, Beard Books

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• For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.

  Jean Giono

  Mistake, Character, Years

  Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.3, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Cooperation, Individual

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Brave, Favors

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.5, Jaico Publishing House

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• When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some individual. It was Commodore Vanderbilt's enterprise in switching first from running a ferryboat to running other ships, and then, when he was well along in years, his enterprise in switching into railroading, that created what was to become one of the most notable fortunes in the history of the world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Business, America

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• No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.

  Adam Lambert

  Hate, Mean, Matter

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• Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.

  Joachim du Bellay

  Rome, Rivers, Gone

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• Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. You've got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a writer. The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.

  Alex Haley

  Dream, Lonely, Writing

  "Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work". Book by Jack Canfield, Maida Rogerson, Mark Victor Hansen, and Martin Rutte, 1996.

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• Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to ascribe what we meet with either to good or ill luck and fortune. There are many events in the world which men look upon as mere accidents, yet all these come by the counsel and appointment of Heaven.

  Thomas Boston

  Fall, Men, Heaven

  Thomas Boston (1812). “An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion, with Respect to Faith and Practice, Upon the Plan of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, Comprehending a Complete Body of Divinity”, p.179

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• Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

  Robert Ley

  Greatness, Men, Found

  "Fate — I believe!". Speech on November 03, 1936. "Wir alle helfen dem Führer". Book by Robert Ley, pp. 103-114, research.calvin.edu. 1937.

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• With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

  Mitsuo Fuchida

  War, Self, Taught Us

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• I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.

  S. R. Nathan

  Struggle, Government, Labour Movement

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• There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

  Frank Laubach

  Castles, Defeat, Buried

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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• I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.

  William H. Wharton

  Insecure, Government, Self

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• Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece.

  Stephen Harrigan

  Book, Creative, Lonesome Dove

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• Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

  Publilius Syrus

  Criminal Mind, Calamity, Satisfied

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 274, 1856.

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• When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

  Publilius Syrus

  Favors, Sides, Bears

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 275, 1856.

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• A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

  Ron Suskind

  Skills, Leader, Littles

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• While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.

  Valerie Estelle Frankel

  Hero, Journey, Creative

  Valerie Estelle Frankel (2010). “From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend”, p.20, McFarland

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• The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

  Abraham Maslow

  Beautiful, Fate, Wonderful

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• Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Children, People

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.

  Brian Tracy

  Ideas, Needs, Good Ideas

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 23, 2011

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• Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

  Demosthenes

  Blessing, Next, Good Fortune

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• If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and capital in about equal proportion. The plains states, however, were devouring capital as a gang of spendthrift heirs might squander a great capitalist's fortune.

  Marc Reisner

  California, Water, Environmental

  Marc Reisner (1986). “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water”

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• The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

  John D. Rockefeller

  America, Land, Estates

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