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• Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Rude, Cuisine

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.279, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.

  Dorothy Gish

  Greatness, America, Quality

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• With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

  Burt Rutan

  Running, Space, Pluto

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

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• Good luck with your asparagus.

  Eric Holder

  Good Luck, Asparagus

  "Eric Holder Trolls Louie Gohmert: ‘Good Luck With Your Asparagus’" By Ryan J. Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• The concept of luck is very straightforward.  Some people notice opportunities and others don't.

  Richard Wiseman

  Opportunity, People, Straightforward

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• If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.

  Sheri Holman

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Numbers, Technique, Self Defense

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• Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way.

  Jack Canfield

  Way, Remember, Doing The Right Thing

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• Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Believe, Men, Secure

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World”, p.12, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately
  represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Good Luck, Reality, Thinking

  "Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot, 1980.

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• But over the years, I've learned not to believe too much in luck or accidents; T think everything happens for a reason. There's something to be learned from every moment, every experience we encounter during the brief time we spend on this planet. Call it fate, call it destiny, call it what you will; it really doesn't matter.

  Syd Field

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

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• Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone

  Jack D. Schwager

  Successful, Winning, Skills

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• Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.

  Anuj

  Believe, Reason, Factories

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• We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Thinking

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• It's like there's this knowledge hanging in the air that one person has more power than the other, and we're supposed to pretend everything is nice and normal and equal, but in reality, luck or chance has showered benefits on one person that the other person couldn't dream of.

  Sara Benincasa

  Dream, Nice, Reality

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• To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.

  Dave Winer

  Fighting, Winning, Curves

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• According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

  Nick Hancock

  Soccer, Football, Ocean

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• If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Mean, Fighting, Winning

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• With success it's like 60% talent, maybe 20% luck and then 20% being at the right place at the right time. There are so many artists that have been passed by - even though, on paper, they're the most incredibly talented artists, they don't have the social skills to take it outside of the bedroom.

  Seth Troxler

  Artist, Skills, Paper

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• A big part of winning is having lots of good luck. And I think a good competitor makes his own luck. That's why he is a winner. Luck to me is lots of determination lots of hard work, faith in myself, and in God.

  Lane Frost

  Determination, Hard Work, Good Luck

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• In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.

  Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

  Running, Military, Long

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• CeNation. Wwe reports that last night at approximatley 9pm est. It terminated its contract with cousin of john cena, juan. The wwe wishes juan the best of luck in his future endeavors.

  John Cena

  Cousin, Night, Wwe

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• I wish you the beast of luck!

  Chris Jericho

  Wwe, Wish, Beast

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• The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Family, Divorce, Epidemics

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• The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Cat, Angel

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