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• Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Grace

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• To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Spiritual, Learning, Discipline

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• I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.

  Owen Hart

  Stupid, Wrestling, Making Money

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• We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.

  Jerry Garcia

  Men, Drug, Littles

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• Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry
  Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake
  Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake
  Laughter always follow tears
  Blessed are those who understand
  Life blossoms wherever water flows
  Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Laughter, Blessed

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• Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

  Roger Moore

  Children, Growing Up, Made

  "Showbuzz/ Queen honors 007 (Roger Moore) and Tom Jones". www.cnn.com. March 10, 1999.

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• [A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work will never be anymore essentially clear and deep and honest than he himself is, and he will be judged finally not for how many copies his books have sold, but for what they have done to enrich the lives of their readers, now and in time to come.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet have surrounded us with worldliness. . . . We are fortunate to have been blessed with a special power to direct us in making important decisions between right and wrong.

  L. Tom Perry

  Blessed, Decision, Special

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• I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.

  Lee Iacocca

  Money, Learning, School

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• Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds of interventions that new trade theory suggests can raise national income will typically raise the welfare of small, fortunate groups by large amounts, while imposing costs on larger, more diffuse groups.

  Paul Krugman

  Philosophy, Government, Political

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• Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized! Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Peace, Hero, Air

  "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" l. 11 (1923)

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• Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Art, Passion

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• I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Struggle, Responsibility, Volunteer

  David Halberstam, Marian Wright Edelman, Sadako N. Ogata (1991). “Japan & the U.S.: where are we today?”

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• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

  William James

  Happiness, Sadness, Reality

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• Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Insecure, Age

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.84

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• Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

  Feist

  Writing, Skills, Way

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• I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

  John Toshack

  Successful, Player, Knowledge And Experience

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• Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate and those in need. People saw Roberto as a great ballplayer and humanitarian. He was also a great father, husband, teammate and friend.

  Manny Sanguillen

  Baseball, Husband, Father

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• I've been very fortunate and I am grateful.

  Scott Baio

  Grateful, I Am Grateful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.

  Henry Cavill

  Tough, Unlucky, Aim High

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• We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three Batman films. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.

  Christian Bale

  Torches, Three, Actors

  "Christian Bale won't be Batman in 'Justice League' movie" by Adam Markovitz, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

  Gregory Corso

  People, Remember, Prison

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• Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose—lest we die, unbloomed.

  Austin Bunn

  Ignorance, Long, Giving

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• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Years, Two, Needs

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• I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Classic, Film

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