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Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, their lack of good fortunes or the quirks of fate. Everyone has within them the power to say, "This I am today, that I shall become tomorrow." The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.
Louis L'Amour
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I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.
Jason Mraz
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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney
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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
Langston Coleman
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Benjamin Franklin
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Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
Jacques Delille
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What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
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May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.(Irish Blessing)
Unknown
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Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
Lemony Snicket
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All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Joni Mitchell
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides
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I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
J. C. Penny
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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan
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Here's to our girlfriends and wives; may they never meet!
Groucho Marx
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
Robert Fulghum
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
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Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
Jimmy Durante
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America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush
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I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.
Bill Watterson
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I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.
Hugh Elliott
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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel
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The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!
Ted Turner
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Vincent van Gogh
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What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.
Achilles
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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain
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Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
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The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
Albert Einstein
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When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
Ed Macauley
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
Alexander Humboldt
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
George Santayana
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Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
Oprah Winfrey
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We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin
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Quality is never an accident.
Willa A. Foster
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