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"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
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"Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes."
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"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
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"Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
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"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
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"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
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"Fortune favours the bold."
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"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."
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"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
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"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."
People
"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."
Country
"In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility."
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"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
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"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."
American
"In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule."
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"And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction."
People
"The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people."
Government
"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige."
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"There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own."
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