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    Whenever you’re down on your luck, and when things aren’t going the way you like, remember that you are the author of your own story. You can write it any way you like, with anyone you choose. And it can be a beautiful story or a sad and tragic one. You get to pick.

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    When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

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    When have you ever seen a one on one match up on this platform? Andrew Luck on offense…going against J.J. Watt

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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.

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    When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.' It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck.

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    When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

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    When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.

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    Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

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    when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

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    When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.

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    Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

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    Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable.

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    Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

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    Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?' Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.

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    Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

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    Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

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

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    With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

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    Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

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    With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

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    With the schedule I created for myself, I saw a lot of times that others copied what I did. And if you copy somebody, you are always too late. And that was always my luck, that I never copied somebody, that I developed something new. And they were always one step behind.

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    With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

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    With success it's like 60% talent, maybe 20% luck and then 20% being at the right place at the right time. There are so many artists that have been passed by - even though, on paper, they're the most incredibly talented artists, they don't have the social skills to take it outside of the bedroom.

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    With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

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    Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills.

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    You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

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

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    Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7? You're in luck-you already have one. Your body! Our bodies carry ancient wisdom. We literally live within a temple of intuitive and instinctive wisdom. Sometimes we pay attention and access body wisdom; but unfortunately, the aphorism "Mrs. Smith lived a short distance from her body" is sadly true for many of us.

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    Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with a special fixation on young girls. Until now, all the women in his life have been more or less his own age. Pilar therefore does not represent an embodiment of some ideal female type for him--she is merely herself, a small piece of luck he stumbled across one afternoon in a public park, an exception to every rule.

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    Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

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    You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up seven is still a function of random luck.

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    You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

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    You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.

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    You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

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    You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.

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    You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

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    You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too. And that, by some miracle, the language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

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    You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.

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    You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.

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    You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

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    You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.

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    You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.

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    You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

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    You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

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    You may have a barrelful of luck tomorrow. If so- fine. But don't expect it, and most of all, don't sit around waiting for it.

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    You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

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    ... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.

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    You need an immense amount of luck and an immense amount of perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale. You work as hard as you can for ten years so you finally have a chance to be lucky - It's really rare that somebody gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent, a lot of hard work. People that get lucky also tend to be really great looking.

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    You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

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    You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

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