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To seek meaning in stumbling words is to dance with echoes that didn't know they would tell tales.
Author:
Elara Winsor
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Within the dance of accidents to uncover beauty, sometimes the playful purpose we chase wholeheartedly is lit by mishaps fortune organizes in its favorite manner yet unseen.
Author:
Elara Syren
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Serendipitous encounters are the cosmic offshoots of mindfulness, highlighting the door Hopes open when scouting for Chance.
Author:
Clara Windwood
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Chance meetings stir potent chemicals in human hearts, transforming strangers into improbable answers for yearning questions.
Author:
Elara Kinsey
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Within the quiet pulse of unresolved moments, fortune scripts whispers- where the heart consumed by patience becomes the cradle of chance transformed into golden villagers dwelling the uncharted kingdoms beyond our vision.
Author:
Aurora Brielle
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Luck blooms in the garden of restrained expectation, where quiet perseverance is the watering can of fortune.
Author:
Isla Durant
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In every flicker of the forgotten, serenity lingers; maintaining small treasures obscured in a cloistral chaos harnesses tranquility birthed by time's gentle grace.
Author:
Aurora Melander
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In a world intricately woven with chaos, sometimes it is the unintentional shapes and overlooked patterns that speak loudly to our restless souls.
Author:
Elena Tran
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True navigation often depends on provide sight; we must embrace the serendipitous moments, for it's in the twists of for Maps Unwritten that vacations induce inhance interventions from forward traditions within places wowunder every route constraints.
Author:
Icarus Mohring
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Often, it is in errors and midnight wrong turns that we distill our most precious insights, crafting fortune from detours bold.
Author:
Mira Eddington
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Though the map withers and guides sometimes fail, destiny spares room for wonders afield; each diversion becomes an avenue to hidden treasures.
Author:
Essa Moore
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Often, purpose takes flight in unexpected corridors; the unplanned echoes of chance gift us a lingering wisdom untouched by intent.
Author:
Lila Thorncroft
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Amidst the chaos of life's unforeseen persuasions, accident composes a melody that speaks of insights uncouched - rare whispers rise where actual knowledge quells.
Author:
Elara Finch
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When shadows of the past echo deceptively through silenced halls, forgotten melodies rise: wild notes recalibrating reality within immaculate twists of serendipity.
Author:
Odessa Greythorne
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Hearts collide like shooting stars; though brief, every encounter etches narratives in the soul--luck shaping our destinies along a previously unwritten map.
Author:
Stella Cohen
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Life intricately curates splendid chaos, weaving paths of bliss that briefly bridge the random touches of fortune.
Author:
Maisie Sunhong
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True creativity is found when chance dances with intention, painting masterpieces on the canvases of our minds.
Author:
Elara Sanchez
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Sometimes the small instants, fleeting yet exquisite, lead us on discovers unseen; in the impractical waltzing of the unexpected we whisper finally introductions to whom we'll become.
Author:
Mariella Soldati
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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Author:
Johann Zimmermann
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I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
Author:
Thomas Willis
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Action makes more fortune than caution.
Author:
Charlotte Whitton
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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Author:
John Whittier
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Author:
Richard Whately
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Author:
Mae West
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The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
Author:
Robert Welch
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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
Author:
John Webster
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If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
Author:
Sela Ward
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
Author:
Patrick Warburton
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
Author:
Patrick Warburton
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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Author:
Lew Wallace
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
Author:
Arthur Waite
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Author:
Vincent Voiture
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Fortune favours the bold.
Author:
Virgil
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Fortune sides with him who dares.
Author:
Virgil
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Author:
Virgil
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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Author:
Virgil
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
Author:
Charles V
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That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
Author:
James Tobin
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Fortune favors the brave.
Author:
Terence
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Author:
Tecumseh
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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
Author:
Torquato Tasso
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Author:
Torquato Tasso
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Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
Author:
Torquato Tasso
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
Author:
Wislawa Szymborska
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Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
Author:
Robert Southwell
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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
Author:
Sophocles
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Author:
Sophocles
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Author:
Sophocles
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Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives.
Author:
R. Sheppard
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We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Author:
Sallust
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Author:
Sallust
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.
Author:
Bryan Robson
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Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
Author:
John Ray
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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Author:
Raymond Queneau
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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
Author:
Mario Puzo
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But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
Author:
Michael Pollan
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Author:
Plutarch
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Author:
Eden Phillpotts
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Author:
Petrarch
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
Author:
Petrarch
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Author:
Laurence Peter
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It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
Author:
Martin Perl
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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.
Author:
Barry Pepper
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
Author:
William Penn
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I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.
Author:
Rob Paulsen
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Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Author:
Louis Pasteur
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When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.
Author:
Joe Pantoliano
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Author:
Ovid
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Author:
Ovid
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
Author:
Ovid
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If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
Author:
Bill Mumy
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
Author:
John Mortimer
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Author:
Gabriela Mistral
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These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.
Author:
Nelson Miles
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The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
Author:
Sarah McLachlan
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
Author:
Marcus Martial
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I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
Author:
Leonard Maltin
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Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
Author:
David Mallet
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Sometimes destiny writes its greatest stories in the margins of life, scripting connections in moments of serendipity that feel like universes aligning.
Author:
Alexandra Brahms
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family.
Author:
James MacArthur
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Author:
James Lowell
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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
Author:
Titus Livius
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
Author:
Titus Livius
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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Author:
Titus Livius
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Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.
Author:
Jamal Lewis
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From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
Author:
Ernest Lawrence
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I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.
Author:
Hugh Laurie
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
Author:
Ferdinand Lassalle
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
Author:
Edward Koch
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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
Author:
Billie King
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I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
Author:
George Kennedy
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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Author:
Ben Jonson
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Fortune, that favors fools.
Author:
Ben Jonson
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
Author:
James Johnson
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The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.
Author:
Guy Johnson
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Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
Author:
Silius Italicus
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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Author:
Horace
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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Author:
Horace
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Author:
Horace
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Author:
Horace
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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Author:
Horace
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If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.
Author:
Luther Hodges
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What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
Author:
Adolf Hitler
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Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.
Author:
Jim Hightower
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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Author:
Thomas Higginson
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Author:
Herodotus
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A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
Author:
Anna Held
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I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
Author:
Anna Held
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Author:
Francis Hedge
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There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.
Author:
Dante Hall
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Amid the unpredictability of chance, strategic nudges transform pure surprise into purposeful discovery.
Author:
Ava Quinn
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Life dances in enigmas; when toil must meet chance, guided serendipity captivates with asymmetric outcomes.
Author:
Aria Nota
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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
Author:
Thomas Gray
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Author:
Ulysses Grant
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Author:
Carlo Goldoni
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.
Author:
Roland Gift
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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
Author:
Barry Gibb
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
Author:
J. Getty
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
Author:
J. Getty
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It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
Author:
Lesley Garrett
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A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
Author:
David Friedman
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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Author:
Marilyn French
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Author:
Anatole France
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
Author:
Siobhan Fahey
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Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.
Author:
John Fahey
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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Author:
Euripides
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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Author:
Euripides
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Fortune favors the audacious.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
Author:
Robert Emmet
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Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
Author:
Hector Elizondo
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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Author:
Maria Edgeworth
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No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
Author:
Patty Duke
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Author:
John Dryden
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It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
Author:
Placido Domingo
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Fortune befriends the bold.
Author:
Emily Dickinson
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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Author:
Emily Dickinson
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
Author:
Jackie DeShannon
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Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.
Author:
Thomas Dekker
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I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
Author:
Jimmy Dean
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If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
Author:
Jacques-Louis David
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The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
Author:
William Dampier
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I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
Author:
Jim Cramer
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
Author:
E. Cossman
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
Author:
Rufus Choate
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
Author:
Nicolas Chamfort
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
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Giacomo Casanova
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The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
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Sydney Carter
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
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Thomas Carlyle
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
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Thomas Carlyle
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Thomas Carlyle
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From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
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Giraldus Cambrensis
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Taylor Caldwell
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Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
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Julius Caesar
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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Lord Byron
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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
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Eric Butterworth
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I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
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Solomon Burke
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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Thomas Browne
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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Anita Brookner
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It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.
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Eric Bristow
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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Alain Botton
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Walther Bothe
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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.
Author:
Amar Bose
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Boethius
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Bodhidharma
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Bodhidharma
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My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.
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Claire Bloom
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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Ambrose Bierce
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
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Birch Bayh
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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Bernard Baruch
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One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
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John Barrow
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
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Amelia Barr
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
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Honore Balzac
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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Adam Baldwin
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I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.
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Arthur Baker
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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
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Anita Baker
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
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Francis Bacon
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
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Francis Bacon
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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Francis Bacon
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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Francis Bacon
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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Jane Austen
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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Jane Austen
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If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
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Ausonius
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
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Marcus Aurelius
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Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
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Margot Asquith
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Fortune is either with you or it's not.
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Tom Araya
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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.
Author:
Michael Apted
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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
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David Antin
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Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
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Aeschylus
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Author:
Joseph Addison
