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• I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and fairness. He read the record in detail in every single case that came before me; he insisted on scrupulously following precedents.

  Samuel Alito

  Law, Careers, Judging

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an actor, not many people get to see him turn that character on, they don't understand that he's playing a role.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Thinking, Artist

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

  Andrew Levitas

  Majority, World, Able

  "Andrew Levitas’ End of Life Lullaby". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

  Roger Housden

  Writing, Tennis, Natural Gifts

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It is something wonderful when one can love another author. That happens so rarely, without any kind of misgivings that authors often have between each other. It is a good fortune, when you can adore, when you can love, when you can find something so magnificent.

  Liao Yiwu

  Kind, Wonderful, Adore

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• Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.

  Marianne Williamson

  Blessed, Blessing, Shining

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

  Lew Wallace

  Funny, Men, Trials

  Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 5, ch. 7 (1880)

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• The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

  Ralph Marston

  Way, Fortune, Handle

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• Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Work, Stones, Philosopher

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• We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

  Denzel Washington, Daniel Paisner (2006). “A Hand to Guide Me”, p.20, Meredith Books

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• Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wish, Fortune, Worthy

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.54, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, Long, Healthy

  'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 1

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• What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Happy, Discovery

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• Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Sea, Dying

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Development, Way

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• The world is an abundant place. Abundant with opportunity, abundant with good fortune, abundant with ideas, and abundant with love. Reach into that abundance and take what is rightfully yours. It is your inheritance, gifted to you by God. Let yourself have it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Opportunity, Ideas, Inheritance

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 22, 2016

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• Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.

  E. O. Wilson

  Discovery, Intellectual, Firsts

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• O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

  John Donne

  Fall, Power, Men

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?

  Socrates

  Wise, Mean, Men

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• Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world.

  Samuel Roth

  People, Vices, World

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• My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Heart, Brilliant

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• Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Gratitude, Motivation, Blessing

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• I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour.

  Hannibal

  War, Yield, Honor

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• To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

  Edward Abbey

  Rocks, Bird, Sun

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.186, University of Arizona Press

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• You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune.

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Sweet, Heart, Fortune

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