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• When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Thinking, Trying, Records

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.

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• Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.

  Julian Baggini

  Prayer, Believe, Responsibility

  "You don't have to be religious to pray ... but it helps" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2012.

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• A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

  Bodhidharma

  Karma, Heaven, Matter

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• I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. Hell, I'm blessed to be in any position, you know? There are so many guys who had good lives, great lives, and blew it...I think there are some guys who think they don't deserve to have good lives. They feel they don't deserve their good fortune, so they throw it away. One of my good friends was Chris Farley. Chris blew it. He blew the whole enchilada.

  Tom Sizemore

  Good Life, Blessed, Good Friend

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.

  Julian Simon

  Believe, Hands, Evil

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• God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.

  Randy Owen

  Alive, Moments, Reason

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• Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

  Donald Trump

  People, Instinct, Fortune

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Future Happiness, Daily Problems, Cherish

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.59, Tharpa Publications US

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• It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

  Aristotle

  Ignorance, Men, Self

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• We are corrupted by good fortune.
  [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

  Tacitus

  Fortune

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• Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Independence, May

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• Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

  Twyla Tharp

  Opposites, Generosity, Community

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• Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

  Fay Weldon

  Life, Blessed, Fate

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• Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state--
  Though poor myself, I know the fortunate:
  First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence
  Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense:
  Then perseverance, never to decline
  The chase of riches till the prey is thine;
  And firmness never to be drawn away
  By any passion from that noble prey--
  By love, ambition, study, travel, fame,
  Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.

  George Crabbe

  Perseverance, Ambition, Passion

  George Crabbe (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.364

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• According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

  Hannah Arendt

  Competition, Luck, Honor

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Father, Thinking, Sprung Up

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• Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

  Livy

  Time, Blessed, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXX. 42, (pp. 289-293), 1922.

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• It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Depression, Children, War

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• The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

  Alan Watts

  Impossible, Process, Fortune

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• From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.

  Maurice Cowling

  War, Fighting, Views

  Maurice Cowling (1990). “Mill and Liberalism”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  May, Months, Bed

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• For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.

  Jean Giono

  Mistake, Character, Years

  Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.3, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Men, Groups, Radiation

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• I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

  Marie Corelli

  Writing, Heart, Simple

  Marie Corelli (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)”, p.10877, Delphi Classics

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• Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

  Peter Carey

  Cheer, Mean, Close Friends

  2002 In the Observer, 18 Aug.

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