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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Robertson Davies

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

Susan M. Dodd

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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon

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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson

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Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Robert Evans

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Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

The Talmud

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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.

Baltasar Gracian

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Luck is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Henry David Thoreau

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When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.

Armmand Hammer

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Oscar Wilde

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No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

Richard Sasurly

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Ben Franklin

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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillor

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We must believe in luck. For how else do we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

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O, I am fortune's fool! (Romeo & Juliet)

William Shakespeare

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Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks

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Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Murphy?s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.

Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Benjamin Franklin

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Fortune favor the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

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Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey

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