Luck

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  • Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.
        Ernest Rutherford   Best?
  • It has been my fate, and one's fate one accepts. It's a dreadful thing to have to say, in so wicked a world.
        Henry James   Best?
  • Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
        Carl Sagan   Best?
  • Courage mounteth with occasion.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
        Jerry Garcia   Best?
  • Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
        Solon   Best?
  • Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
        Anne Besant   Best?
  • Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
        Thucydides   Best?
  • Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
        Augustus Hare   Best?
  • Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
  • Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.
        Cleobulus   Best?
  • The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
        Bret Harte   Best?
  • You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
        Ronald Reagan   Best?
  • Indecision may or may not be my problem.
        Jimmy Buffett   Best?
  • Anyone who interprets or defines your rights controls your destiny.
        Paul Walter   Best?
  • We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
        Sir Arthur Eddington   Best?
  • When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
        Ovid   Best?
  • In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
        Louis Pasteur   Best?
  • Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
        Paul Tillich   Best?
  • Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
        Samuel Johnson   Best?
  • No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
        Samuel Johnson   Best?
  • I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
        Upton Sinclair   Best?
  • People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, 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   Best?
  • Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
        James Baldwin   Best?
  • Fortune favors the bold.
        Virgil   Best?
  • The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
        Srully Blotnick   Best?
  • Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
        Walt Whitman   Best?
  • A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
        Juvenal   Best?
  • Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
        Anne Tyler   Best?
  • Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
        Linda Dillow   Best?

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