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• Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Art, Children, Sacrifice

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• Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

  Orson Welles

  Good Luck, Men, Thinking

  "Orson Welles: The Unfulfilled Promise" by Barbara Leaming, The New York Times, July 14, 1985.

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• Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it

  Roald Amundsen

  Order, Victory, Defeat

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• Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

  Roald Amundsen

  Order, People, Victory

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.222, BoD – Books on Demand

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• ...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

  John Muir

  Fall, Good Luck, Sky

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.225, Library of America

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• The path of love. Good luck. May your love guide you through the bardo to eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Good Luck, May

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• This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.

  Celeste Holm

  Inspirational, Home, Memorable

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• When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.

  Roger Moore

  Years, Personality, Would Be

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.

  Miguel Torres

  Men, Mma, He Man

  Twitter post from Jun 22, 2013

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• I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky

  Richard Hammond

  Thinking, Car, Age

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• Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Opinion, Shots

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.253, Univ of California Press

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• Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck-- It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science--same as any other game.

  Eugene Field

  Thinking, Years, Games

  Eugene Field (2012). “Songs and Other Verse”, p.148, tredition

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• My right eye itches, some good luck is near.

  John Dryden

  Good Luck, Eye

  John Dryden (1972). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684”, p.377, Univ of California Press

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• I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

  Willie Nelson

  Running, Angel, Night

  "The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes". Book by Willie Nelson and Larry McMurtry, 2003.

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• We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.

  Barack Obama

  America, Race, World

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• There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.

  John Brunner

  War, Stupid, Responsibility

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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• Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

  Merlin Mann

  Being Yourself, Good Luck, Interesting

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2011

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• I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichéd things, you really do learn something if you get the luck of being able to hang around. Even if it's a rough ride, you learn.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Grateful, Play, Able

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Most of the time when something goes bad—a marriage, a war, a run of good luck—you don’t know it. It’s like in the cartoons, only less funny. You run off the cliff and just keep going—talking, listening to music, making plans, for years sometimes—except no announcer interrupts to say ‘Excuse me, collect call for Mr. Coyote’ to make you notice and make us laugh. You just wake up and fall.

  Mark Slouka

  Running, War, Fall

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• But over the years, I've learned not to believe too much in luck or accidents; T think everything happens for a reason. There's something to be learned from every moment, every experience we encounter during the brief time we spend on this planet. Call it fate, call it destiny, call it what you will; it really doesn't matter.

  Syd Field

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

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• Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

  Irvine Welsh

  Proximity, Sufferers, Habitual

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.

  William Mathews

  Stars, Destiny, Men

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.23, Belford Bros.

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• Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

  Louis Nizer

  Morning, Book, Golf

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• The honester the man, the worse luck.

  John Ray

  Honesty, Men, He Man

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• We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Thinking

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