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• It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Support, Problem, Virtue

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• What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Envy, Cowardice, Fortune

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• ‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say. My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.

  Tina Fey

  Mother, Dream, Jobs

  "Confessions of a Juggler" by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2011.

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• If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Evil, Design

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• But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Political, Levers, Littles

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• All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

  Boethius

  Discipline, Rewards, Fortune

  Boethius (1897). “The Consolation of Philosophy”

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

  Plautus

  Men, Fortune, Perpetual

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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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  People, Merit, Reputation

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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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• Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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• Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Success, Men, Deeds

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• I met eight great members. I really don't think that anyone else could get along like how our nine girls get along so well. Because we're girls, there can be a lot of jealousy going on. Thinking back on it now, I think I'm a kid who received a lot of good fortune.

  Kim Hyo-yeon

  Girl, Kids, Thinking

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• Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Doe, Blind, Fortune

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• At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

  Amar Bose

  Years, Discipline, Expectations

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• To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Men, Fortune

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• Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

  Saadi

  Opportunity, Association, Decline

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• A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Procrastination, Rocks, Sea

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• ... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

  Bernard Malamud

  Believe, Clouds, Sky

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.

  Lee Iacocca

  Children, Kids, Focus

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