Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Emily Dickinson Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • David J. Schwartz Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • John Dewey Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carl Lewis M so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ronald Laing Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Joe Laurie Jr Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.
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  • David Blaine Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.
    David Blaine
    American illusionist (1973 - )
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  • Harry Houdini Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Ovid Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Robert Collier Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream, but create!
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • George Bernard Shaw Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare Make not your thoughts you prisons.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Watson Make sure you know your identity is in Christ, so that when you get laid off from your job, or when you get a raise from your job, or when things don't go right, you're not up and down, up and down.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Jerry Gillies Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Robert Collier Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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