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Fortune, Luck, Chance, Surprise

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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."

James Tobin, American Economist

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"The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips."

J. Paul Getty, American Businessman

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"I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune."

Thomas Gray, English Poet

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"I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive."

Solomon Burke, American Musician

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"I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions."

Roland Gift, British Actor

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"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other."

Petrarch, Italian Poet

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"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

Ability

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."

End

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity."

Morality

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

Children

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

Experience

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

Communication

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

Health

"How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!"

Culture

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

World

"You use a glass mirror to see your face, you use works of art to see your soul."

Reflection