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Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true ...

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So doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? You purchase a ticket when you're born. And...

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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.

Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opportunity

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

I don’t believe it can be taught as if it were a recipe. There aren’t ingredients and techniques tha...

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Richard BransonLosing My Virginity: How I've Survived

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in ...

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We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

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Roald DahlCharlie and the Chocolate Factory

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a stat...

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Robert A. HeinleinHave Space Suit—Will Travel

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

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Robert JordanThe Eye of the World

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest peopl...

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The harder I work, the luckier I get.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going t...

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If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating...

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Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court...

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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to...

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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or...

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I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery good

It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature

Luck is believing your lucky.

The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hur...

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Tennessee WilliamsAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.

Luck came to those who left a space for it.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Fortune favours the brave, sir," said Carrot cheerfully."Good. Good. Pleased to hear it, captain. Wh...

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Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

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Terry PratchettLords and Ladies

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...

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As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the...

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Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed," she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There...

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He looked at me. His firm, broad face showed weight-loss in deep shadows under the cheekbones, his e...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Left Hand of Darkness

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its...

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Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.

Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on...

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Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

If fate means you to lose give him a good fight anyhow.

Lie you easy, dream you light,And sleep you fast for aye;And luckier may you find the nightThan ever...

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The thoughts of othersWere light and fleeting,Of lovers' meetingOr luck or fame.Mine were of trouble...

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...luck is not to be coerced.

Luck is everything. ... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to ...

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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of...

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Concentration attracts luck factor.

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Amit RayYoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

The more you invest in a marriage the more valuable it becomes.

My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was af if she had turned on a celestial faucet a...

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Amy TanThe Joy Luck Club

My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was af if she had turned on a celestial faucet a...

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Amy TanThe Joy Luck Club

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...

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I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were ...

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The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

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Anchee MinEmpress Orchid

People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

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August WilsonGem of the Ocean

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.

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August WilsonGem of the Ocean

It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is gr...

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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding better ...

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Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important a...

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Baltasar GraciánThe Art of Worldly Wisdom

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

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Baltasar GraciánThe Art of Worldly Wisdom

You don't just luck into things.... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunitie...

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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they des...

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Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We...

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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in cha...

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BonoBono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

Wayne's a little attached to that hat," Waxillium said. "He thinks it's lucky."Wayne: "It is lucky. ...

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There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each perso...

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Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a who...

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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active....

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When it comes to luck, you make your own.

With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a pri...

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