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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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  • Natasha Josefowitz Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.
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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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  • Babe Didrikson Zaharias Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    American athlete (1911 - 1956)
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  • Alexander Pope Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bob Gunton Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
    Bob Gunton
     
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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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  • Bill Walsh Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bill Bryson Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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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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  • Ben Harper Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
    Source: Roots Radical, Guitar Player (December 1, 1999)
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Billy Graham Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bess Myerson Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Barry White Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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