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• I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.

  Mike Patton

  Song, Sunshine, Land

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

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• The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

  Calvin Miller

  Sky, World, Maps

  Calvin Miller (2010). “The Singer Trilogy: The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament”, p.335, InterVarsity Press

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• The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.

  Jim Rohn

  Average, Goal, Emotion

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• The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

  Chris Prentiss

  Successful, Path, Great Success

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “The Little Book of Secrets: Gentle Wisdom for Joyful Living”, p.81, BookBaby

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• It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Understanding, Faults, Common

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• Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, People, Judging

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• I made a fortune getting out too soon.

  J. P. Morgan

  Success, Business, Made

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• It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have been able in that way to judge the tree by its fruit. I know of your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and nation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Men, Judging

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• It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed the Cold War with meticulous care in retrospect. Imagine the European diplomats of 1914 or 1938 armed with nuclear weapons. It is easy to believe they would not have been as cautious.

  George Friedman

  War, Believe, Two

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• The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Opposites, Ideas

  F.scott fitzgerald (1969). “the last tycon”

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• People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Equality, Skills, People

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.149, TAN Books

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• He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Victory

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.

  Eric Liu

  Country, Believe, Self

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.20, Sasquatch Books

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• At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Queens, Pieces, Chess

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• Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Twilight, Sky, Snow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

  George Orwell

  Business, Games, Dramatic

  1944 Raffles and Miss Blandish.

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• The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strong, Business

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.368

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• Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day.

  Russell Kirk

  Country, Ambition, Mind

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.237, Regnery Publishing

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• How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service.

  Jim Rohn

  Rendering, Deserve, Deserving

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 08, 2017

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• One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dream, Wish, Firsts

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.30, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, World, Action

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

  Raymond Queneau

  Men, Religion, Disappear

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• Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice, Down And, Helping

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

  Jim Rohn

  Paid

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 10, 2015

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• There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

  Pete Hamill

  Football, Country, Player

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